Submit form coding question

[m_tCh]

Hi,
I have a question regarding form coding. My php form works fine (attached below) but I need it to do something it currently doesn't. When the user doesn't fill in one of the required fields, it erases all of the fields they already filled in. Which is very annoying if you spent a lot of time giving detailed responses to the questions. How do I modify this to not do that?

Thanks very much for your help!

-Mitch

[berridgeab]

Aint to sure on what you mean.

Do you mean :-

1. User entered fields on HTML form
2. Filled one incorrectly or missed one field.
   3.Hit Submit Button
3. PHP code detects that a field is missing.
4. Send user back to the form to re-enter wrong/missing values.
5. All previous content that the user had entered has disappeared

If above is the problem then you need to store what was entered into some kind of record (Or even the URL though this is somewhat insecure if the information submitted is private). Then restore this information into the form values.

[m_tCh]

Correct.

How do I do that is what I am asking.

It doesn't have to be secure. This isn't sensitive info.

[m_tCh]

anyone know how to resolve this?

[CrashRoX]

can you post your code so far?

[gregmiller]

Hi
When you submit a form use POST method
on the other page or the same catch the variable as $_POST['somevariable']
check if its valid .... if its then echo that value th the field that you want it to be

like

<input type = "text" name = "somevariable" value = "<?php echo $_POST['somevariable']; ?> ">

else its

<input type = "text" name = "somevariable" value = " ">

when all fields are valid insert it into the database

So that would be it

Greg