php form help

[vicious]

hey guys just making a website and its been a while since i've done php.

basically i have a textarea on page1.php that sends its info(lets call it $text) to page2.php

page2.php gets $text and also has 2 more textfields ($field1 and $field2) and sends its info to page3.php

i would like to get page3.php to process the info from page1.php and page2.php. is there anyway to do this cleanly?

is there a way i can put $text into a superglobal or something? maybe the $POST array that page2.php will send to page3.php if thats possible?

the only way i can think of doing it is to have an invisible(using css) textarea in page2.php that contains $text but this doesn't seem like a good solution

any ideas would be appreciated, and no i cannot put page1 and page2 forms on the one page and i know my variable names and page names are stupid but i'm only using them as an example

[Graveyard]

Put this in your second form right below the opening form tag. Obviously make sure to put the value from the first form into $text first.

<input type="hidden" name="text1" value="<?=$text ?>" />

Edited July 11, 2010 by Graveyard

[vicious]

thanks alot!

just one more quick question, in one of my forms i'm asking for an image to be uploaded and an email address. is it possible to use the same one form with this tag:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="uploadFile.php" method="post">

and if i have to use 2 forms (on the same page) can i use:

action="uploadFile.php"

for both of the forms? assuming uploadfile.php does more to the inputted data than uploading the file

[Graveyard]

thanks alot!

just one more quick question, in one of my forms i'm asking for an image to be uploaded and an email address. is it possible to use the same one form with this tag:

<form enctype="multipart/form-data" action="uploadFile.php" method="post">

and if i have to use 2 forms (on the same page) can i use:

action="uploadFile.php"

for both of the forms? assuming uploadfile.php does more to the inputted data than uploading the file

yes, thats fine.

[vicious]

thanks alot, guess that's not what my problem is then