Submit form data after a redirect to login

Having this scenario where not logged users can fill a form submit it but redirected to login/register, then after login/register the form previously filled will be submitted.

Also, the user ID has to be submitted with along with the form data, hence the need to login/register.

What I am currently doing is, persist the form data to local storage, then when the user login, I get the form data saved to local storage and perform an AJAX request with. The problem with this approach is that upon successful login there is a redirection which hinders the AJAX request from firing.

tisuchi

9 years ago

Best Answer

Level 70

Of course, not the best practice. However, can recommend you to use session.

May be the procedure will be-

Generate a unique id to track the visitor and store in session
Store every form element data in session separately based on unique id whatever visitor wrote
Finally, if user signup and still has value in unique id session, get all the session values and insert into database based on signup id.

Ref: https://laravel.com/docs/5.4/session

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mezie

9 years ago

Level 8

@tisuchi Also tried using session encountered some issues (which I can't remember now) with it too though I didn't generate unique ID for each visitors

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tisuchi

9 years ago

Level 70

I believe, session is the one of the best solution for you.

To track a visitor by unique session, you can just follow this steps-

http://www.larademy.com/laravel/laravel-tracking-visitors-by-a-unique-session/

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mezie

9 years ago

Level 8

Thanks for the link, will try them out.

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