A form question

[Clintw]

I have been asked by one of my customers to put an application up on the web so his customers can sign up direct with him. The application is over 5 pages long and that is my problem. I don't want to create one long page, but instead I would like to create 5 normal pages something like the Futurequest's survey. What would be my best way to organized this so the information is sent in one email instead of 5 different emails.

Thanks for your time and Happy New Year,

Clint
http://www.qualitydg.com

[mike_w]

For multi-page forms, I generally create one script. Each page is a subroutine, and the value of the submit buttons controls flow to those subroutines. For passing form data from one form to another, I just use hidden data types. Roughly, the script looks like this -

first part -

Try to grab all form data, for all forms.

second part -

Determine which form was submitted from the value of the submit button. Pass the form data to the appropriate subroutine.

third part -

Subroutines for each form.

fourth part -

A mailer routine called after the successful completion of the last form.

You can of course use templates or multiple scripts if you prefer. I just try to keep everything as simple and self-contained as possible. That way, 6 months in the future when I have to tweak something, it's easy to figure out what I had done.

[Daniel Jackler]

AlienForm is a Perl script that can do this:
http://www.cgi.tj/scripts/alienform/

Daniel

[Clintw]

Thanks for all the other replies, but is there anyway to set up Matt's script to work on multiple pages?

Clint

[Rich]

Thanks for all the other replies, but is there anyway to set up Matt's script to work on multiple pages?
Not without making custom modifications to the script.

Rich

[Rich]

Daniel, thanks for the alienform pointer. This script seems to have many actual *useful* features not found in other scripts.

Clint, I agree with Daniel, that the alienform script may do what you are wanting to achieve.

I'll be taking closer look at this script...

Rich