passing arguments again

[Anon]

Well.
Heres my problem.
I have a form on one page,
and before I submit it I have to go to a different page of mine to choose a street name from a map, by clicking on a link to this page, which returns the chosen street to the first page.
When I return to the first page the values already entered in other areas in the form have been deleted.
I need a way to either send the values entered in the first form without hitting submit(because when submitted, action=newpage.php3), not the one with the selection of roads on, or to save all the previous values without submitting

if anyone can help me out, it would be a great help.

Thanks

[maxpup979]

This shouldn't be too tough to implement. What you need to do is put in a conditional in your form. Something along the lines of:
if($beentomappage==1){
print "<form name = \"yadda\" action = \"new action\" method = \"post\">";
}else{
print "<form name = \"yadda\" action = \"newpage.php3\" method = \"post\">";
}

Of course, in your map page, you need to have either a hidden form field beentomappage, or you need to pass beentomappage through the URL. You will also need to put all of the form values in hidden form fields, or in the url, so that you can then echo them when you reload your initial page. Confusing to explain, but it really isnt too complex. The other thing you want to do, is alter your input statements, so that if beentomappage exists, you show the values in the input fields. Something along the lines of...
<input type = "text" name = "field1" value = "<? if ($beentomappage){print $field1;?>">
there are other ways to do this, but I think its probably the easiest to understand. Hope this helps.

Darren

[Anon]

You need to have values put into the <input type...> bits.

For eg: <input type='text' size='20' value='whatever'>

The word wherever is replaced by an <? echo $form; ?> and it will fill the blank spaces in as long as the page your linking from is the result of a form. If it's not the result of a form you will have to pass all the values from the first page to the second page and then place them in the link to the first page by using the querystring.