From: "Hardik Doshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have a form for adding a university course details. > It has some fields for which the parent form calls the > child form. For example: Each course is associated > with at least one faculty member. So when the user > enters faculty member then first user needs to find > the appropriate faculty member using the search module > and then needs to append that faculty member to the > course details form by clicking the button next to > faculty member's name on the search results. > > Now my question is once user leaves the parent form to > the search form for the faculty member, at that time > how can i store the already entered information on the > parent form. So i can retrieve it back once i come to > the parent form after finding the appropriate faculty > member. > > I would like to know your ideas for this problem. I > have think two possible ways to do it. One is to store > entire $_POST array of parent form into the database > associated with the session id. Second is to store > $_POST array of parent form into the session file > itself. But i don't know which one is the efficient > and real world solution. Even i would like to know > other possible solutions.
I'd just store it in the session. If you put it in the database, then you have to worry about cleanup. Session cleanup is automatic. ---John Holmes... -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
