form variables stored?

  • gerard

    (@charismaarts)


    12 years, 10 months ago

    Hi: I am trying to do soemthing which i think is simple; but I am missing something crucial I think…

    I have an email capture form on a landing page; a simple php form which goes to a page and dumps inputs into “post” variables. I saved the variables into session variables thinking then they would be saved while moving from file back to the site. here is the whole sequence:

    on input page have this form:

    /********/
    <form action=”gform1.php” method=”post”>
    <p>Your First Name: <input type=”text” name=”firstname” />

    E-mail:                   <input type=”text” name=”email” /></p>
    <input type=”image” name=”btn_opentextbox” src=”http://privatelabel.gtdsites.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Screen-Shot-2013-06-12-at-4.43.40-PM.png&#8221; value=”Submit” />
    </form>
    /********/

    then we go to the file:

    /*********/
    <?php session_start();

    $_SESSION[‘firstanme’] = $_POST[‘firstname’];
    $_SESSION[’email’] = $_POST[’email’];

    ?>
    <?php
    header( ‘Location: http://privatelabel.gtdsites.com/form-landing&#8217; ) ;
    ?>
    <html>
    <body>

    Thank you for filling out our form, we will be in touch with you shortly.

    Your name is: <?php echo $_SESSION[‘firstanme’]; ?>
    Your e-mail: <?php echo $_SESSION[’email’]; ?>

    </body>
    </html>
    /********/

    NOw I know the variables are stored in the session variables because i had different code in there and at least while still in this file; the session variables were stored; and i could display them or whatever; but when i go to that landing page the session variable values are lost;

    so I think I am missing something crucial here; and is that session variable just cannot be retained when going from the file back to my site?

    I am confident that i can save them in a mySQL database and probably do that straight from the file; but that seems a bit extreme and seems overkill to me…

    so – does anyone know better? how to retain these variables while going from that file back to the site?

    thanks! G

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