hi denise,

the most cumbersome way i've ever done this was to have a hidden frame on my
page that had a form on it that actually collected all the data.  so, the
page loads and the user sees a few questions on a form.  the user does not
see a 1px frame on the right that has a form with a bunch of hidden fields
in it.  they fill out those questions and click next, a javascript function
is called that writes the answers to the form on the hidden frame and the
main frame changes to a second set of questions.  user fills out, clicks
next, more answers written to the hidden frame, etc.  on the last page, the
submit button submits the form in the hidden frame.

this is cumbersome and, of course, only works if your users have javascript
turned on.  my example was from a corporate intranet where we had a very
good idea of what people were using to view pages.

another avenue to explore would be to write information to a cookie and then
read it back in on your last page to submit all the data.  if you do a
server-side cookie, it should work; if you do a client-side cookie, it will,
of course, only work if the user allows cookies.

hth,
rebecca
http://www.nerdygirl.com

-----Original Message-----
From: denise cassidy [mailto:denise(at)amun-ra.demon.co.uk]
Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 6:10 AM
To: hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Subject: Forms on Several Pages


I have a form I want to put on a website, but it is rather long and I
think that it would be best split onto several pages.

What is the best way to send so much information?  I've done a
form which uses a cgi script to turn the information into an email,
but I had a lot of help in modifying the script (it was supplied by the
ISP).

How has anyone else dealt with this?

Denise

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