populate empty form

Anon

I'm completing an error check on a form and if fields are empty sending the user back to the form to complete. But when I do it this way, the original form information is lost. How can i stop the field which already have data from empying? Is there a way to prepoulate forms?

Cheers

Anon

are you using simply history.go(-1); to go back one step for completing the missing values?? if so, then are you using Netscape? and if yes, then please o make sure your page doesnt have the META tags that says, Expire-Now, netscape doesnt let it go back in history, and re-loads it all. But there is a way around that too.
if you are using OnClick="JavaScript:history.go(-1);" to go back, just add return false; to it too, like:
OnClick="JavaScript:history.go(-1); return false;"

that will work fine in both browsers.
goodluck,

Anon

The best way is to have your script submit the information to itself.
Thatis, when you load the script (first time), you load it without all the variables needed for a successful submission (say we want to save the information) So, the form submits itself to itself, over and over again, till all the form fields are filled in and contain valid information.
When they do you proceed to the "save procedure". To print out the information you want in every input field simply use
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="age" VALUE="<?PHP echo $age; ?>">
If the variable is empty, then there is no output, and if the variable contains data it is outputted.

Cheers!

/Jocke