passing data from hidden form TO an html page.

[Anon]

i have two pages, i am new to PHP.
page A is index.html
page B is test.php

page A (index.html)

user fills in first name
user fills in last name
user clicks Enter

page B (test.php)

first name and last name retrieved from
form values on index.html. first name and last name variables printed out.

** stuff values of $fname and $lname variables back into hidden form boxes.

** page A (index.html)

** retrieve values passed back to the page from the test.php page. how do i do this? do i need VBScript? i am sure HTML alone can not do it. can it? what is the syntax to do this? i want to put the values back in the form fields in index.html, as if the user had hit the back button on the browser instead of clicking the link to bo back to the index.html page from the test.php page.

thanks,

thomas whalen

[Anon]

Values can pass from one page to another easyly with PHP, you can call the value="input" from the form with <?echo$value?> to another one.

Hope this helps.

Pepe

[Anon]

No, VBscript is not a good idea.

It's not easy to answer your question in a few lines. First, it seems that you generally need a better understanding of PHP. I recommend buying a book.

Secondly, consider using JavaScript or cookies or other client-side facilities to make the browser remember earlier inputs.

Finally, when you get more PHP experience, consider using PHP 4's session capabilities to refine your solution. That could be combined with Pepe's suggestion:

<input ... value="<?php print $somevariable ?>">

[Anon]

Note that both pages will have to be .php

The .html page won't know what to do with the PHP code, and it'll just show it as text.

Whenever you have a text box, you can echo out it's name into the value attribute. If it's the first time the form is loaded, the variable will be empty, so the text box will be empty, also. If it's the second time the page is loaded, and the variable is passed to the page with some value, then the box will be filled with that value.

<input type=text name=firstname value="<?php echo $firstname; ?>">
<input type=text name=lastname value="<?php echo $lastname; ?>">
<input type=submit name=submit value=submit>

---John Holmes...

[Anon]

html pages can hold user inputs (forms) but to display variables you will have to use .php extensions.

Pepe