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Clear persistent form data on successful form submission?

Thread began 10/01/2016 2:37 pm by Mags | Last modified 10/10/2016 2:59 pm by Ray Borduin | 1202 views | 4 replies |

Mags

Clear persistent form data on successful form submission?

I have a contact form set up in a shared file and included on multiple pages. The form includes captcha validation and I have also set up form persistence so that if they get the captcha wrong, they don't have to retype their message. However, the form data is being kept even after successful submission so the user can see it on every page the form appears on. How do I get it to clear when a successful submission is made?

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

It is stored in the session, so you could clear the session variable. Another option is to add a url parameter to the failed validation so that it only uses the persisted values when it fails.

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Mags

Hi Ray, I tried clearing the session but it doesn't work, it's still retaining the form data after successful submission. I suspect it's something to do with the code order but I put the clear session info at line 1 which I think is the standard place? I've tried ordering the various code blocks differently but the current order ensures everything else works properly.

How would I go about using the URL parameter option? At the moment it redirects to test.php?sent=false#captchafail if it fails the captcha. I've attached a copy of the current page for info.

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Ray BorduinWebAssist

The actual session variable name would be "WASF_contact" if you wanted to delete it.

To only show the value after a failed validation you would use something like:

php:
<?php echo(isset($_GET['sent'])?WA_getSavedFormValue("contact","name"):""); ?>
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Mags

Thanks Ray, I got it working as follows:

<?php
@session_start();
if(isset($_GET['sent']) && $_GET['sent'] == "true"){
// WA_ClearSession
$clearAll = FALSE;
$clearThese = explode(",","WASF_contact");
if($clearAll){
foreach ($_SESSION as $key => $value){
unset($_SESSION[$key]);
}
}
else{
foreach($clearThese as $value){
unset($_SESSION[$value]);
}
}
}
?>

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