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Re: forms question

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Romkey)
Fri Aug 19 10:14:08 1994

Date: Fri, 19 Aug 1994 16:00:43 +0200
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From: Rick Romkey <pokey@maddie.atlantic.com>
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> You could use hidden fields in the form to store status
> eg
> <input type="hidden"  name="status" value="put status info here ">
> 
> I've made this work quite well in a search screen. If you need lots 
> of status you can of course add more hidden fields - status1, status2 
> etc.
> 
> (BTW why can we only have 1 submit button per form - allowing more 
> would improve the quality of forms interfaces no end, and doesn't 
> seem technically difficult?)
> 


Or if you have a whole mess of stuff you need to store, a sneakier
way to do it would be to store everything in /tmp under a unique
filename (perhaps named for the first PID the user is assigned) and
then just pass the PID (or filename) from form to form.

Rick

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