signup help

[steviez]

Hi,

 

I am trying to make a new signup system for my site, there will be three signup steps to complete before you will be signedup. Ho do i make all the data from the parts available at the end step for them to be inserted in to the database?

 

Any help would be great!

 

Steve

[The Little Guy]

place them in sessions!

 

page1.php

session_start();
$_SESSION['page1'] = 'this is page one';
echo '<a href="page2.php">Go to page 2</a>';

 

page2.php

session_start();
echo $_SESSION['page1'];

[jackpf]

Or you could use hidden inputs. Either way.

[The Little Guy]

Or you could use hidden inputs. Either way.

 

That isn't as secure.

[jackpf]

Guess not tbh.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Since the information that would be in the hidden fields is information that was supplied by the visitor, using hidden fields to pass it to the next page is no less secure than any other method. All external data must be validated before it is used by a script.

[The Little Guy]

Since the information that would be in the hidden fields is information that was supplied by the visitor, using hidden fields to pass it to the next page is no less secure than any other method. All external data must be validated before it is used by a script.

 

What if it is a password, or Credit Card Number?

[PFMaBiSmAd]

Passing a password or a cc number in a hidden field is no less secure than when those two pieces of information were originally typed in a field and submitted.

[shadiadiph]

on your form you have fields like this

 

<input type="text" name="username" />

 

then you submit it to the next page

 

at the top of the page in in php tags

 

<?

$username = $_POST["username"];

?>

 

in your form on the second page have to  include

 

<input type="hidden" name="username" value="<?=$username?>" />

 

on page three same again

 

<?

$username = $_POST["username"];

?>

 

on your sql insert page the same start with the same code $_Post etc

 

not secure like the other guy said but then nothing is 100% secure ever

 

[shadiadiph]

one last thought while you are putting your user sign up forms

 

do it like this

 

<?

$username = $_POST["username"];
$country = $_POST["country"];

print $username;
print $country;

?>

 

as when you are passing values you sometime forget to include one and you can always see if the value has been passed once you have it passing all the correct entries delete all the print $str;

that way you will not be sitting there wondering why somethng hasn't been added to your database