BACK Button...Losing all data.

[help_needed]

Hi,

I was wondering other than using sessions, is there a way to keep all the data that was filled in, before hitting submit.;

Scenario:

I have a form, and a visitor partially fills out the form and hits submit. THey get error, because they've not filled out all required filelds.

They click on 'Back' to fill out the left out field, but they find that they have to start from the beginning as the fields that they've already filled out are blank now.

Can someone please help?

I'm using POST.

Thanks,

[lazzerous]

There's a better solution to this

first of all, have the html form in an include...
have the fields set up like this:
<input type="text" name="f_name" value="<? echo $f_name; ?>">

if there's an error, show the error, and include the form
since the variables that they filled out are already set ( they just subitted the form), then what they filled out will be there for them, without necessitating the use of the browser's back button.

If they're seeing the form for the first time, those variables have no value, so the fields will be empty.

-=Lazzerous=-