Collecting ASP.Net form data in session objects?
tmn
dumb question. I need to build a multi-page data
collection form (its a mortgage pre-qualification form -
very long and detailed) using ASP.Net but with no back-end
database of any sort. I need to collect all the user's
input across 2-4 pages of form data and package it into an
e-mail. The idea I'm starting with is to append each
page's data to an XML file stored in a session object (no
client-side code allowed) and on the last page, pass the
XML into another processing page that will package the
data into an e-mail. The e-mail info is then routed
internally where someone will MANUALLY data enter the
contents into a customer management system - I'll at least
use XSL to render the XML in a user-friendly format.
My concerns are:
1) Memory management - the more users, the more XML in
session objects = more memory requirements
2) Maintaining the data while the forms are in process -
I'll need to write a lot of code to handle situations
where users go 'back' a page and edit their previous
answers
3) Some of the forms need to be dynamically generated
based on previous answers - if the user goes 'back' and
changes a key response it will change the pages down the
chain, potentially invalidating some of the info stored in
memory.
Is this plan sound or is there a better way to handle
multi-page form data collection? I'd prefer to use a
database to capture each page's info along the way and
treat each page individually from a data collection/edit
process but we can't spend the $$$ on a database, not even
MySQL!
