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mark vanzuela
mark vanzuela

Reputation: 1391

How do i get the values from multiple forms in different pages in node js?

Im really new to node/MEAN stack and i would appreciate if somebody can help or guide me or point me to some related tutorials.

I have just purchased a wordpress template for a booking application. This came with different pages for choosing a date, selecting a room, the booking information and confirmation.

I have put the html pages inside the public directory and it was already running.

From the index, clicking booking will lead me to choose-date.html, then to booking info without touching the server side. How do I get the value from the date in the choose-date.html and booking-info.html? I planned to submit the information on the confirmation page.

In asp.net mvc, this could be done by having a controller and action for each and save a session in the server. If i use asp.net mvc, i have to modify the html to use a layout and such. This i want to avoid.

Angular is for single page only and as i understood it could not be applicable to this scenario though im planning to used it to post on the confirmation page.

Any suggestions? I very much appreciate any help and guidance.

Here my folder structure:

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Upvotes: 0

Views: 57

Answers (1)

Paul
Paul

Reputation: 36339

You have essentially three choices as I see it. 1) write a new app using the Wordpress template as inspiration. 2) write a Wordpress app using the template you provided. 3) write an Express app and use the template you bought for just the html.

If you do the third, there are a lot of options for doing a multi step process, but the basic pattern I've found useful is to just have one object in the database (eg your booking) and have each form be either a PUT request (so you send the whole object over the wire on each form submit) or a PATCH (where you only send the new info).

FWIW you could still do the ASP.NET method you described with storing things in session, I just don't think that's a great way to go regardless of framework.

edit

I guess arguably you could also use angularjs and treat each html chunk as an angular template that gets fetched as a directive demands it. But I think that'd be tricky to get right given where you're at with the project.

Upvotes: 1

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