Form not filled in

KABOOM

I have a form that has a bunch of required fields - one of which is a username field (as seen below). What I have right now is two pages, one with the form (call it form.php) and another that checks for valid data and inserts data (call it check.php). The problem is, when a user leaves a field out, I want the fields that were filled in before to be remain filled in (ie: like username)
I tried setting the value in the field but that didn't work. I want to avoid registering values in a session because I had a lot of problems with stuff expiring - none of the settings I can change either because it handled by my ISP.

<form action="check.php" method="post">
<b>Username:</b>
<?PHP print "<input type=\"text\" name=\"username\" value=\"$username\">$username"; ?>
</form>

Any ideas?
Later,
KABOOM!

DigitalExpl0it

try this on a test page calle it test.php

<?
if ($Submit == "Submit") {

if ($username == "") {
echo "A field was blank!";
} else {
?>
<form name="Account" action="test.php" method="post">
<input type="text" name="username" value="<? echo "$username"; ?>">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>
<?
}
} else {
?>

<form name="Account" action="test.php" method="post">
<b>Username:</b>
<input type="text" name="username">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit">
</form>

<?
}
?>

copy and paste that inot test.php and see it work

jerdo

Try using a single script for the form and the formhandling code.
(ie action="form.php") then have a routine validate the input if anything is wrong call the form back up. That way you can simply call the values (ie <input type=text name=stuff value=$stuff>) or $_POST[stuff] if you have globals turned off. One thing you were doing in your code was setting a value then printing it next to the text box.

KABOOM

I was thinking of putting all of this into a single page (using $PHP_SELF) but my problem is, I want the user to fill out a second form depending upon if all the fields are put in correctly.
SO, if I use $PHP_SELF, I won't go anywhere. I want to be shot to another page, not remain on the same page. If I use a second page to do the validation, I lose all the old data values on the form if there's an error.

Can someone please talk to me like a 10 year old and advise me how to fix this problem.

Later,
KABOOM!

BDKR

This is cake! However, I'm going to giv e you some hints as opposed to just telling you how to do it.

Anyways, all the vars from the form can be found in either the $POST or $GET arrays. That's $HTTP_POST_VARS & $HTTP_GET_VARS, if you are using something older than 4.2, I think.

So, if the vars there, you know what to do with them right?

Also, it may be easier to do this:

<form action="check.php" method="post">
<b>Username:</b>
<input type="text" name="username" 
value="<?php echo $_POST[username]; ?>">
</form>

Hope that helps,
BDKR

austingecko

If the error (where the user messed up/failed to complete an input) is displayed on the same page where the input fields are provided, could this be done:

header("Location:". $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . "?failure=$failure");
exit;

$failure is the reason why the user messed up and would be printed on the page.

Also, I'm having trouble having the completed/good variables reappear --- could my above statement remove/reset those variables? Thanks