forms - how to structure server side script with php

Solution:

if you prefer redirect, you can simplify the process by usinghttp_build_query

$params = $_POST;
unset($params['submit']); // exclude 'submit' if you don't need it
$query = http_build_query($parms); 
redirect($varRedirect."?$query);
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not checked well, but you can see the idea.

Solution:

Recommend using session. There you can store data for a user through pages. http://php.net/manual/en/features.sessions.php

Solution:

Wow! Don't use get so send forms unless this is an search form! Send data with POST between pages!

Now you have few solutions:

1. Simple and easy solution is to use JavaScript (for example some jQuery plugin) and create one page with 3 forms. Then validate and show forms on page by javascript and store data in javascript variables. On the final form send it to database.
2. Serialize data of your form, and store form's data in the user's session. In such way you will get the data on every page. On last form just use collected data and clear the session.
3. Serialize the form's data and store in cookies.
4. When you want full control and statistics about your forms, you can insert the data to database after every form submitting. The first form submitting will return an unique ID from database. Then you can use GET REDIRECT with?some_id=332 appended to the url and every next form submitting save data to database using?some_id=332 . In such way you don't need to pass data between forms. You can get it always form the database by?some_id=332. Moreover, in such way user can to do refreshes, next/prev editing. You just need to check if?some_id=332 is provided in the url, and if yes - load the data to form from database.