phendyr Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Hi folks,first time poster here. I appreciate anyone's direction to help me figure out what options are out there. I'm a web designer by trade and usually work with developers to bring the front-end together with the back-end. I don't have that luxury this time....I have a website project that will involve a lot of content download pages. The company does not have the resources to hire a full team of developers, put in a dynamic backend to manage user accounts, etc. This site will contain a lot of pages that contain a 'registration' form in order to download a specific piece of content (ebook, whitepaper, web video, etc)... I would like to at least pre-populate the form for the user so they don't have to enter the same information each time they want to download a new content piece. I immediately thought of cookies, but to be honest, I've never used them myself, & wouldn't know how to set it up, let alone know if it's a viable option since they can be disabled.What other options are out there that I could pursue, research and develop a solution for this issue?Thanks in advance, I truly appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justsomeguy Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Unless you want to require people to create user accounts and then you display that data from a database, cookies are the only other option. Sure they can disable them, but then the form just doesn't get filled in, it still works though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phendyr Posted September 16, 2010 Author Share Posted September 16, 2010 Unless you want to require people to create user accounts and then you display that data from a database, cookies are the only other option. Sure they can disable them, but then the form just doesn't get filled in, it still works though.Thanks JSG, I appreciate the clarification & confirmation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeffman Posted September 16, 2010 Share Posted September 16, 2010 Most people do not disable cookies, so it's not a big thing. And cookies in PHP are very easy, much easier than JavaScript. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phendyr Posted September 17, 2010 Author Share Posted September 17, 2010 I've been searching for a tutorial or any content on how to develop a php cookie to prepopulate a form and I cannot find anything that speaks to this. Does anyone know of where I can find information on this subject? I find basic tutorials that designate the data, but nothing that grabs the data entered in a form, to store it for future use.again, any help/direction is really appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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