Best way of temp storing infomation?

[Moh]

Well say on a register page, if you get a field wrong, normaly you would have to enter them all again. So what would be the best way so that if you get a field wrong, the information is saved.

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[MrCraig]

Cookies

[Moh]

Cookies

Thought so

[Hypertext]

Or you could make it really clever and have a MySQL memory table. Although cookies would suffice.

[Delatory]

If you was processing the data on the same page you could just put a value on the field and put <? echo $_POST[FIELD NAME]; ?> or w.e it is in the language your using and do it that way

[Moh]

Or you could make it really clever and have a MySQL memory table. Although cookies would suffice.

Cookies would be easier, then i dont have to do much.

Humm, I having a problem though. When I submit the form and its wrong, it displays the old cookies the time before.
I have made it update the cookies before returning them also.

Edit: *slaps self*
I just remembered, when im posting to the same page, I dont have to

[Decode]

I just do

if ($_GET['action'] === send) {
   //validatecode
   if ($validate === done) {
      //add to db or flatfile code
      header ( location: done.php );
   }
}
   $age = addslashes( $_POST['age'] );
   echo ('<form action="?action=send" method="post">');
   echo ('<input type="text" name="age" value="$age">');
   echo ('<input type="submit">
   echo ('</form>'); 

[Dentafrice]

Or you could make it really clever and have a MySQL memory table. Although cookies would suffice.

There's no point in that, that's wasting database space, if a user doesn't finish the registration (and sufficing you have specified for it to be removed), it's not going to be removed.

Of course there are other ways to remove it, but that's just more work for such a simple task.

Cookies would be easier, then i dont have to do much.

Humm, I having a problem though. When I submit the form and its wrong, it displays the old cookies the time before.
I have made it update the cookies before returning them also.

Edit: *slaps self*
I just remembered, when im posting to the same page, I dont have to

I wouldn't recommend cookies.

Just use sessions, easy enough, and they only last for that browser session, so there's no worrying about wasted data.

[MrCraig]

yeah but at least with cookies, if the browser freakishly closes then theres no need to re-input the data.

All depends whether you want that to happen or not.

[Dentafrice]

Yeah, but if cookies are turned off? Then it isn't going to work, at least with sessions it's going to work without relying exclusively on browser settings.