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Want to build website that contains long form to fill-out. Which program do you recommend?

I want to be able to add a very long form to my website. It needs to be broken down into several screens since it is so long e.g. step 1, step 2, etc. I need to make sure that it would work with the server when I submit it. I was first using the Yahoo sitebuilder, but I didn’t break it up into more pages, because then it would be separtate forms and I want to keep it all as one.

You can try using Dreamweaver. The trick is not in which sitebuilder you use, its in how you code to get the details.

You can do step by step submission of form with the use of sessions. Its the same as you can see in shopping cart websites. Once you have got details from the first page, enter them into your session variables. Do this for each page until you reach the last page. Do the submit on the last page and you can get access to all the details to be stored into your database or array or any other file.

The way of doing it can be by using javascript to add it to an array. Which can then be used at the last page for final submission to you database.

Please note that there can be several other ways of doing this. I would recommend the session usage though.

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3 Responses to “Want to build website that contains long form to fill-out. Which program do you recommend?”

  1. SweeterThanWine Says:
    March 4th, 2010 at 2:06 pm

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    Visual Basic is a good form building code.
    And can be converted to .exe if you want.
    References :

  2. Invincible Says:
    March 4th, 2010 at 2:48 pm

    You can try using Dreamweaver. The trick is not in which sitebuilder you use, its in how you code to get the details.

    You can do step by step submission of form with the use of sessions. Its the same as you can see in shopping cart websites. Once you have got details from the first page, enter them into your session variables. Do this for each page until you reach the last page. Do the submit on the last page and you can get access to all the details to be stored into your database or array or any other file.

    The way of doing it can be by using javascript to add it to an array. Which can then be used at the last page for final submission to you database.

    Please note that there can be several other ways of doing this. I would recommend the session usage though.
    References :

  3. world news Says:
    March 4th, 2010 at 3:23 pm

    dreamweaver should help :) all the best :)
    References :
    http://tinyurl.com/o5e26

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