Showing preview before form submission

[carla]

Hello,

I am somewhat new to this so please bear with me if this seems a little simple. I have a form that a user can fill out to send notfications to a list of email addresses that are pulled from a customer database. I need to allow the user to preview what is being sent before it is actually sent.

What is the best way to do this? I think session variables will do the trick, but from what I have been reading, that might be taxing on my server. Could I have a hyperlink on the form page that the user can click which will bring up a pop up window with a preview? Any ideas?

Any help is appreciated!
Thanks in advance,
Carla

 

[NiteCrawlr]

Well you could try something like this

formpage.asp:
<form action=&quot;preview.asp&quot; method=&quot;post&quot;>
<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;name&quot;>
<input type=&quot;text&quot; name=&quot;address&quot;>
<input type=&quot;submit&quot;>
</form>

preview.asp

<%
name = request.form(&quot;name&quot
address = request.form(&quot;address&quot
%>
<table>
<tr>
<td>
name:
</td>
<td>
<%=name%>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
address:
</td>
<td>
<%=address%>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<form action=&quot;send.asp?name=<%=name%>&address=<%=address%>&quot; method=&quot;post&quot;>
<input type=&quot;submit&quot;>
</form>

send.asp:

<%
name=request.querystring(&quot;name&quot
address=request.querystring(&quot;address&quot

...
...
%>

here in the third page you can send it through e-mail or send it to a DB.

hope this can help you,
Fred

 

[jasonsalas]

Great tip, Fred!

Carla, you could also try using a bunch of hidden fields to store values that will be passed on to each subsequent page.