Multiple Page Form

[mandie]

Hi everyone,
I am brand new to Tek-Tips
and already I have an HTML question on a multiple page form.
I inherited this site and am trying to figure out/resolve the other WebMasters code.
The site uses a form that is spread across several pages. When the User presses the Next/submit button, it submits that portiion of the form and sends to client as e-mail. Problem is that client ends up with 4 emails for each submission. I am hoping someone can tell me how to have a button that shows the second part of the form and retains all the field inputs from the first page, so that when on page 4 the form is actually submitted, the client will only get one email.
Thanks,
~Mandie

 

[grtfercho]

what language are you using to process the forms?
Coldfusion,asp,php,jsp?

 

[mandie]

I'm using standard HTML on the site & CGI on the server side to porcess. Is is maybe a different CGI that I need?

 

[grtfercho]

I haven't work with CGI that much but probably what you can do is send the values from the first page and either hold them in a variable (like a session variable, I'm not sure if CGI supports this) or concatenate all the info from page1 and send it back to page2 as a hidden value, then the same from 2 to 3 and at the end you process the values..
I don't think this is the best solution but at the very least it will give something else to consider.