Building Multi-Page Forms
Written by Eric Smith, Northstar Computer Systems LLC
A reader asked for some advice on multi-page forms, in which a large form (like an insurance application) requires more than one screen of information. As was mentioned in a previous tip, using Session variables eats system resources quite rapidly. For an application like this, I would put some sort of database behind the scenes to capture data from each page. When the user reaches the end of the application, you can tag the user's record with a "Completed" flag so that it can be exported or processed further. Any records that are not marked as completed and where the last update was more than 24 hours can be assumed to be incomplete and can be deleted. You could also allow the user to come back later to finish, in which case you'll need to write a cookie or store some sort of user information with the record in your database for later retrieval.
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Publication Date: 11/1/1999, Last Update: 3/24/2010
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