Set a session from a submitted form

I think I am being a bit thick here, but I can't for the life of me figure out how to set a session variable from a submitted form. Normally I set sessions with recordset info, and as I just want it stored for the session rather than in a DB, I can't get my head around it.

Basically, I am creating a simple select menu on one page that when submitted will be used on another page that the form posts to.

How do I do this?

Aha... don't worry, I have just figured it out. I've even impressed myself in the course of doing so!

Can you please share with the rest of us how you managed to do this please ?
Many thanks.

Data Bridge has a Server Behavior for setting a session variable.

open the server behaviors panel and click the plus button. Select WebAssist -> Cookies -> Set Session Value.

for the trigger, select any form post.

for the name type the name you wish to use for the session variable

For the value, click the lightning bolt icon and select the form element you wish to save.

Hi Jason,

Thank you for your reply. I am indeed aware of this function and already used it but without any success. The session is not being retained.

In my case, I have a form divided on two pages. step1.php and step2.php

On top of the first page I started the session handling:

<?php
if (!isset($_SESSION)) {
session_start();
}
?>

I have then applied the session value to all the form elements:

<?php
@session_start();
if ($_SERVER["REQUEST_METHOD"] == "POST") {
$_SESSION["mem1_Title"] = "".((isset($_POST["mem1Title"]))?$_POST["mem1Title"]:"") ."";
}?>

For the second page I have again used sessions:

<?php
if (!isset($_SESSION)) {
session_start();
}
?>


But when I want to read the session value like this: <?php echo((isset($_SESSION["mem1_Title"]))?$_SESSION["mem1_Title"]:"") ?>

I get nothing, the session is empty.

on the first page, what is the action of the form?

Does it post to itself?

or post to the second page?

if it posts to the second page, the code to set the session will need to be on that page.


remember, rule #1 when working with forms:

All form processing must occur on the forms action page.


In the future, though, if you asking about how to do something and you have already tried the correct method, include that information in the question.


your question really isn't:

How to store the form in a session, which is what you led off with, but rather:

I'm trying to store it in a session, but it doesn't work...

Hi Jason,

Well, I understand the confusion that happened by my question but that's because I asked you a new question on a thread that was meant for another issue.

At the beginning I wanted to know how "mrs" did it to store the session but then I found out by myself.

Then I wanted to share with you the issue I was facing when trying to use WebAssist's session registration.

Well, now after taking into consideration your note about having the form processing into the action page, everything went fine and I was able to display the session values.


Now, following this discussion, I would also like to point to your attention a little "bug" that I found while using CSS form builder.
Here is the situation:

I have a form, written, complete and well organized.
I wanted to use it with CSS Form Builder by binding its elements to be able to: apply validation, save values in sessions and keep the values persistent in the form fields.

The problem occurs after applying the CSS Form Builder and clicking the Finish button, all the "extra code" generated by DataBridge is writen inside the page except the code in the header that contains the includes like persist.php and the session storage.

I repeated the process many times and each time the code is not generated.

On the other hand, when I create a form from scratch using CSS Form Builder, all the code gets generated fine and all the assets related to the validation, session and values persistence are written succesfully.

If you want I can recreate the case again and send you screenshots.

Thank you.

Well, CSS form builder is just that, A form Builder.

It is not intended for editing existing forms.

Where you have an existing form, you need to manually add the validation.


See this tutorial for details on adding validation to existing forms:
http://www.webassist.com/tutorials/Add-server-validation-to-your-web-forms

I totally understand that but not only the validation, nothing above the <html> tag is written.

Like these includes for examlpe:

<?php require_once("webassist/forms/persist.php"); ?>
<?php require_once("webassist/form_validations/wavt_scripts_php.php"); ?>
<?php require_once("webassist/form_validations/wavt_validatedform_php.php"); ?>

And all the rest of the PHP that should be written for the form.