accessing form variables submitted earlier

[gklinux]

I know this question itself has been asked many
times on this forum.
However, i'm not able to get it to work.
I want to know if my technique is right for this
scenario:

What I have ready:
I have a multiple page form.
On submitting page 1, page 2 shows up and
creates hidden fields for all entries from
page 1 . And so on till the last page, where i have all entered field values.
My pages also have a back button.
Right now, it just reloads the previous page.

Q:
I want to also see the filled in values
on the previous page.
What is the right way to do this?

Thanks,

gklinux

[terrabull]

Well I hope I understand you correctly, but this
is how I would do it,

Lets say your form looks like so:

<form method="post" action="thispage.php" name="thisform">

Make your back button be like so:

<input type="button" value="Back" onclick="goBack()">

then have a bit of javascript like so:

<script language="javascript">
 function goBack () {
     document.thisform.action = 'backpage.php';
     document.thisform.submit();
  }
</script>

That should submit all the vars to whichever
page.

[gklinux]

So what we're actually doing is have a different action for each button- back and next.
I'll try this right away and get back to you.

gklinux

[gklinux]

ok terrabull,
that worked.
i'm only having a problem with thisform.
i get a javascript error that document.thisform
has no properties.
i tried this out with the from name hardcoded instead of using thisform.
any suggestions why this won't work?

thanks,

gklinux

[tekky]

why not just code one php page to display ALL the forms... then the page name doesnt matter... all the data is submitted back to the same page.... all you would have to do is some if checks to determine which form to display.... and if you extract your $_POST var... can just do <input type=text name=blah value=$blah>

and have your data ready to go again after clicking back....

JS can be disabled.... PHP cannot 😉