hi, i am having a problem that i just cant seem to figure out. i have searched all over the internet for the past 2 days and cant find anything that helps.

just to clarify things:

page 1 = page with questions
page 2 = page with echoes of answers
popup = popup from page 2

page 1 has several radio buttons and a few checkboxes. i then use php to transfer the information from page 1 to page 2 where the answers are echoed.

well that all works great, but on page 2 i have a link that produces a popup, where the user should be able to change one of the answers they selected without it affecting the others.

upon submitting the popup, page 2 should be updated with the new answer from the popup, but the other answers should not be effected.

i have tried several things, but all left me with the new answer being updated, but all of the others not being found.

i hope this makes sense if it doesnt, let me know and i will clarify, any help or information would be greatly appreciated.

if you are posting to the original page again, then you would have to re-post all the variables as html is stateless. you might want to try javascript to adjust the answer on the main page... call the function from the pop-up form

yea, i was afraid i would have to repass the variables.

i will try javascript and see how that works out.

thanks for the information.

You might want to use an intermediary page to process incoming variables. The page you display always pulls the data from somewhere (database, session, file, whatever). This is how you can maintain state.

When you submit the form data, have a script accept and store the posted data somewhere (again: db, session, file, whatever) and redirect to your existing page 2 for displaying.

To redirect, use the header() function *** BEFORE *** any HTML output is sent to the user (including whitespace outside of your <?php ?> tags!!!)

header("Location: page2.php");



Take care,

Nik
http://www.bigaction.org/

hey Nik, thanks for the information, but im a little confused.

can you give me and example, using session, as to how this would work. maybe post some code to get me started.

thanks again for the excellent help.