how to send variables

[rafar20]

Hello, I'm making a project for my course and it is about a school platform. I'm making an studdents insert page and it contains 2 steps:
- Step 1 is the studdent information;
- Step 2 is the parent information.

The way I'm doing this is by using the same php file "addstuddent.php" and what I have is something like this:

1st: When I press "Add Studdent" on the previous page I will be redirected for "addstuddent.php?step=1"
2nd: When I press the submit button "Next" I want to check for errors on the fields and if everything is fine it redirects to "addstuddent.php?step=2"

the code is:

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<?php

if($_REQUEST['step'] == 1)
{
   <form action="addstuddent.php?step=1" method="POST">
      <input type="text" name="fullname">
      <input type="text" name="birthday">
      <input type="text" name="address">
      <input type="submit" value="Next" name="next">
   </form>

   if(isset($_REQUEST['next']))
   {
      if($_REQUEST['fullname'] != NULL && $_REQUEST['birthday'] != NULL && $_REQUEST['address'] != NULL))
     {
        ?><script javascript> window.location="addstuddent.php?step=2"</script><?php
     }
   }
}

if($_REQUEST['step'] == 2)
{
    echo $_REQUEST['fullname']; //__this won't work and I know it doesn't
}
?>


I will get this error Notice: Undefined index fullname

Could someone help me and tell me how could I make it work? to send the variables from that form to the step 2 ?

[simplypixie]

There are a few errors with your script

1. $_REQUEST is deprecated so shouldn't be used - use $_GET and $_POST instead

2. You can't just put html elements in the middle of PHP (i.e. you form), you need to close the PHP tags and re-open them again

3. When you send the page using your javascript it doesn't retain the posted information so you need to add it to the url and use $_GET. Based on your script you should be using PHP's header redirect instead anyway.

However, you can do this much more easily and cleanly using the script below

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<?php
if (isset($_GET) && $_GET['step'] == 1) {
  if (isset($_POST) && !empty($_POST['fullname']) && !empty($_POST['birthday']) && !empty($_POST['address'])) {
    echo $_POST['fullname'];
  } else {
?>
<form action="addstuddent.php?step=1" method="POST">
      <input type="text" name="fullname">
      <input type="text" name="birthday">
      <input type="text" name="address">
      <input type="submit" value="Next" name="next">
   </form>
<?php
  }
}
?>