Advice seeking - carrying infor from page to page

[Theseekers]

Hi Tekers,

I am developing a few forms for a medical research projects and would like to know how other users are doing this for this type of project.

On these forms, I will have to carry information (or some of it) to the subsequence forms. Currently, I am putting in lots of hidden fields in these forms in order to get to previous captured info from the current form. Is this the right approach for this type of project or simply you would use session variables carry them forward? (and possible backward when user hit the back arrow). Which is the recommended method???

If any of you have gone down this path before, would you please share your thoughts with me (and for others) on this so I can approach this in the right direction.

TIA

 

[sleipnir214]

I like Session variables

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[Olavxxx]

I think session variables is the easiest way to do it, but if you are to use session variables for non-vital data, I would force the SID, in case the person has a paranoid firewall and does not accept the SID-cookie.

eg:
<form action="foo.php?<?=SID?>" method="post">

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