Level 51
I think that approach is ok ...
You can check this video whre jeffrey uses simular approach
https://laracasts.com/series/build-your-first-app-in-laravel/episodes/8
Sep 8, 2016
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Level 19
Store session data best practice
Hi, i have a multi-step form for my current website.
I decided to go with the Session approach of storing each step in the session, that way i can validate each step.
Since i never used this approach before, i would like to know if the following code is ok, or if it's bad practice
session(['stepOneData' => $request->all()]);
$testing = session('stepOneData');
when i dd() my $testing i get exactly what i need, but is it better to split up the data in smaller chunks or ?
Level 19
I mean using Request->all() , but thanks for the video did not watch that one yet.
the problem might be with File uploads i suppose. Should i store file uploads in the session? that seems a bad idea. Those i probably need to save to the storage first and if the user closes it browser or doesn't complete the last step i need to remove it somehow.
Level 51
Why dont you do validation after each step?
if i dont pass step 1 i dont wont to fill fields in step 2
Level 19
i do validate each step, that's just not including in my code example. The code shown is after i validate that step . I understand that step, i just wanted to know if using request->all() is bad, since it's all data including token information etc.
Level 7
I think your session approach is fine. I mean how much data are we talking? A few Kb?
Incidentally, this is a question I have been considering too, I have to do pretty much the same thing at some point soon; my challenge is that I have to display a lot of help with each form field (textarea - probably with quite long form answers) so I was thinking of splitting my form up too.
I am almost certainly going to do this as a Vue 2 application using an API on the Laravel side for each step for complete control every step of the way. I can't quite believe I am saying this, but prior to Learning Vue 2 I would not have been looking forward to this at all, secretly I have never really liked Javascript very much, but I am actually looking forward to this.
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