Form fields values gone whenever hit Back button

[shelbytll]

Hi,
I realise whenever hit the Back button of the browser, the value in my form fields will be gone. Is there any way to maintain those values in the fields?

[anthill]

I'd be interested to know what other people do too, but what I do is register the form values as a session on submit. so on the first page your have something like:

<form type="text" name="username" value="<? echo $_SESSION['username'] >?">

Dunnoif that's the best way to do it coz it all goes pear shaped when it comes to dropdown selections.

Ant

[barand]

anthill

Just test your option values against $_SESSION['selectname'] and add 'SELECTED' to the matching option tag. Spherical shape preserved.

[shelbytll]

Hi,
is that the only way? get values from form and store in session and then echo in form field? because I have to get values from database, store them in variable and then echo that variable in form field. for example:
<input type="text" name="myname" value="<?print $myname?>">

which $myname has the value get from database.

So for example, when i click submit and then click Back button of browser, the value will be gone.

[jpmoriarty]

either than you you could do a link which says "back" and supplies the values using get variables - but in either way you have to "repopulate" them. Alternatively ytou could change your code so that if the session (or get) variables are set then the default vaulues are the session variables, if they're not then they're the database values. but welcome to the joys of dynamic pages anyway! 😉