Web forms not working completely

Question

I'm creating this multi step form; this is the first page http://www.angelsjunkremoval.com/book-online-dates-times.php this is the second page http://www.angelsjunkremoval.com/book-online.php .
I've been able to make the PHP enter the time designated by the radio circle into the secon box of the second page but I haven't been able to figure out how to make the first box of the second page show the day of the the user is booking from the first page. Is there a way I could possibly create a conditional statement using the id# of the radio input or can I get the result I'm looking for some other way?

Answer 1

Forget about session variables. POST form values only survive the duration of one page load, or action. So you'd have to recycle the value that was passed from the first page to the second page or else they are destroyed once a page is loaded after that. You can recycle variables either through a form field, a URL parameter, or a Session varible. You can also store the value in a database and call it. I'm sure you know that and it wasn't really your original question, so posting a w3schools link won't help much. Your example is recycling the value that's being passed from formpage1.php to formpage2.php so session variables are completely pointless for this discussion thread. Like I've said: forget about session variables. There are times where you might use session variables but for this scenario I do not see any reason to use them.
I've seen your form page and comprehended your question. For instance: visitor goes to formpage1.php and enters a time for a day. Upon submission of the form you're sent to formpage2.php where the time slot is displayed in a read only text field. You want the day to also be displayed in a separate read only text field. Currently it doesn't matter if visitor enters a time slot for anyday because a variable is not set for the day in formpage1.php and thus passed to display on formpage2.php in the day text field.
There's a few solutions you can do: either create separate forms for each day on formpage1.php with each submission value the name of the day, then pass the form submission value to formpage2.php and echo the value in the day input filed much like you've already done for the time slot. The other method is to use javascript to append the day value to the time slot radio selection on formpage1.php depending on the time that was selected. Something like if id="22" is checked then add a POST value 'day' value of Wednesday, etc. It's a cumbersome method that's dependent on javascript knowledge of the developer and also the client having javascript enabled so I don't recommend it. The final method is to add the day value into the time slot value then use php function on formpage2.php to separate the conjoined value of time slot and day. This is another cumbersome method but there's no dependancies on the client.
***The other alternative is to use drop downs for day and time slot. It'll clean up your form a lot and maintain one submission button without cumbersome code functions. One drop down for the day selection, one drop down for the time slot selection. Then echo the values into the respective read only input fields on formpage2.php That's what I'd do. boom.