Faking a form from PhP

[Anon]

Hi!

I want to do the folowing:

On page1.php i have a form with a method=post to page2.php
On page2.php i check some things, if all is okay, it does a header("location:page3.php");
That all works, BUT when the check is false, i will have to go back to page1.php ( header("location: page1.php");
The problem is that at that point i lose all formdata posted. I want to keep those to re-fill the form (so a user doesnt have to do it all over again).

How do i do this ?

Thnx,
Zimmon

[amcgrath]

1. Why not bring all these scripts into 1 script?

2. if not, then why not include the files, rather than redirect to prevent data loss?

[Anon]

Create a data structure (probably an array or a class) to hold your form data.
If the check is false, save the form data to a PHP session.
Have page1.php check the session to see if it contains your form data. If it does, load it into your form.