remembering text field values?

[Mark]

i tried searching before making this thread, but couldnt find anything... anyways what i want to know is, when someone types in a name, say for a shoutbox, how can i have it remember that name next time they make a post?

[malariajoe]

You can store his name in a cookie (if he has enabled Cookies)
example:

$value="hisname";
setcookie ("testcookie", $value, time()+3600);  /* Cookie stored for 1hour */
...

echo $_COOKIE['testcookie'];

(http://de3.php.net/manual/de/function.setcookie.php)

[Mark]

:p

[m_tt]

Or you could always use sessions...

$customerName = $HTTP_POST_VARS['name'];

session_register("customerName");