Topic awaiting preservation: Passing information between pages to forms?

Okay, is this just an issue of setting a temporary cookie when a nav button is clicked? Or do I need to turn it into something more with the use of either php or asp? What I need to do is, I have a products listing, and I want the user to be able to click on a buy now button, and then the order page will have the info on that part. Then, from there, the page will be able to calculate the UPS shipping cost (I guess with the use of UPS's xml tools for this)...I don't want to have to create a new order html for each product, obviously...that's why these other methods exist...but i'm not sure what they are, quite yet, and that's my problem.

I'm also attempting to learn to use Dreamweaver UltraDev...is this a mistake or worth my while? What are the design tools of choice in this realm? I seem to get a 'bad vibe' on the Dreamweaver front from many people, but it seems to do the job much of the time.

-Grats

You should use server-side sessions (i.e. using PHP or ASP) to do that (store a lot of information & pass them between pages).

As far as HTML/PHP coding goes, I use my own HTML editor to do everything...

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I'm also attempting to learn to use Dreamweaver UltraDev...is this a mistake or worth my while? What are the design tools of choice in this realm? I seem to get a 'bad vibe' on the Dreamweaver front from many people, but it seems to do the job much of the time.

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I personally use DreamWeaver 4 (for layout and starting the HTML code from scratch).
And then I use EditPlus2 to edit the PHP code later on.

Quoting lallous...

I personally use DreamWeaver 4 (for layout and starting the HTML code from scratch).
And then I use EditPlus2 to edit the PHP code later on.

And now for Grats....

Okay, I'll try that out. How about some good suggestions for where to learn this stuff on the web? I'm tired of looking at about.com

grats if you are seriously thinking about learning this then get a book. Maybe it sounds stupid but its so much easier just to reach above the computer and look in the index than it is to mess around searching! Php Developer's Cookbook is pretty good but I am sure you will not have a hard time finding a good book. It may cost you some but it will save you so much time.

- can't decide? have another drink.

here's some links:

html:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_reference.asp (tag list) http://www.w3schools.com/ (i think tutorials are here, can't check cause site is busy)

php:

http://www.php.net/ http://www.devshed.com/Server_Side/PHP http://www.securereality.com.au/archives.html (couple advisaries will help) http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/programming/php/ (some tutorials do insecure things, like opening mysql database as root, but still might help)

mysql: (if you want databases)

http://www.mysql.com/

evilclown01

[This message has been edited by evilclown01 (edited 02-04-2002).]