refreshing a same page..without loosing the existing data

[agnal]

Good Day!

I have a Form which collects data and on submitting I am storing the values in a file as HTML format so to make the viewing easier for the users.

my problem is that, in the middle of my form i have a button "insert table" which actual refreshes the same page and creates a table of Textfields for input, while refreshing i loose all the fields which are keyed in earlier.. i want the existing keyin data to remain as such..

How can this be done.. Any help please...

Thanx in advance..

[agnal]

To put in more precisely my problem! i want something like a registeration page which askes for name,age etc., and when we choose the country, the page gets refreshed .. the existing keyed-in data name,age etc reappears again..

I have tried to pass it thru the URL which doesn't work, the page gets refreshed by the key-in datas not appearing..

[bj_]

I am somewhat knew to php.
I am asuming you are using <form method="post" ...
I think you could just do something like this:

echo "<form><input type=\"text\" name=\"tboxName\" value=\"".HTTP_POST_VARS['tboxName']."\"><form>";

when you create your forms. Doing this you would loose any default values you wanted to set up so you could set up your variables early on like this:

if ( !HTTP_POST_VARS['tboxNAME'] )
$tboxName = 'some value';

I hope this works for you.