popup form within form

[peter.t]

Hello, I might be in over my head but I figure why not ask for help.

 

I have two forms.  A main form with a few text fields.  Inside this form is a link to a popup form where the user fills in a few text fields.  When this popup form is submitted, I want the information to be submitted as an array to one variable and when the main form is submitted, the popup info is submitted into a hidden field.

 

Here's the breakdown:

Main Form has these text fields:

>name

>email

link to popup form

 

 

Popup Form has these text fields:

>field1

>field2

>field3

>field4

When submitted, the popup window closes and this information carries back over to the Main Form and through a hidden field.

 

So in the end, the fields in the Main Form are:

>name

>email

>popupinfo (this hidden field stores the combined values of the popup form = field1, field2, field3, field4)

 

This Main Form ends up being stored in a mySql db.

 

Is this way too complicated?

[haku]

Not ridiculously complicated, but I have to ask why you want to do it this way.

[peter.t]

The fields in the popup form that will end up in one db column won't need to be updated.  So I'm just trying to save db space.  And I just want to see if this is doable.

I forgot to mention earlier that I'm using PHP.