retaining form values

[Anon]

Hi folks
How do I keep the users input ( in a text field or a checked box etc ) when the user hits 'back'

At the moment I get a blank form when I hit 'back'

The forms are all conditional include() files.

Cheers

Nick

[mekka]

Nick,

Hope this helps. 🙂

In most browsers, form values should be remembered explicitly unless you have the default value set to an empty string. This is not really a PHP thing, it's an HTML thing. in your text input boxes, make sure that there is no value = "" field.

example:

<input type="text" name="username" value="">

will give blank results when user hits back, as the value is set to the empty string, while:
< input type="text" name="username">

should retain the user's value.

Alternatively, you can use PHP to force values to be remembered like this.

<input type="text" name="username" value="<? echo($my_value); ?">