[Resolved] PHP and form fields

[Rulkster]

Hi,

I am using session controls on my membership website.

Whenever I have a form for my members to fill out and they click submit , the next script preforms various checks on the data that was entered and if the checks fail I prompt the user to click a back button and check that particular field data.

When this happens, all data from all fields is lost and they have to re-enter all the information over again.

How do I keep their original field answers there?

Thanks for any help.

[Shaped]

Try <?php echo "$username"; ?> or whateber your input names are..

Or you could make a cookie for each of the field names and then echo this cookie for the input values.
on submit..
setcookie('username',$username,time()+600);

if things are wrong once submitted and u send them back.

<input type="text" value="<?php echo $_cookie['username']; ?>">

i think the term for this is "making forms sticky" you could have a scan around u might find something.

[kburger]

I'd actually suggest not prompting your visitors to use the back button. Just display the form again (filled out with what they entered before) with the missing fields flagged.

Just my preference, for whatever it's worth.

[Rulkster]

Thanks for the advice but those sound real messy. There has got to be an easier way. I actually have a series of forms that follow each other. I might have 100 form fields but I separate them into 5 pages (20 each page) just to make the presentation neater.

I was thinking there is a way to do it with the meta tag.