Keeping form fields filled in with error message...

silver10

So I finally got my CAPTCHA to implement just nicely. What I'm wondering is...is there a way to produce an error message on the same page without wiping the fields that the user just filled in?

I've tried:

<?php
$oldvalu = '';
	if(isset($_POST['name'])) {
	$oldvalu == $_POST['name'];
    }
	echo"<input name=\"name\" type=\"text\" value=\"$oldvalu\" class=\"formstyles\" />";
?>

and

<input type='text' name='email' class="formstyles" value="{$_POST['email']}" />

Both to no avail...

devinemke

change this:

$oldvalu == $_POST['name'];

to this:

$oldvalu = $_POST['name'];

silver10

Thanks for the reply...just tried that but still no luck :-\

This is the error code:

if (isset($_POST['submit'])) {
	if ($_SESSION['security_code'] != $_POST['security_code'] && !empty($_SESSION['security_code'])){
		header("Location: /pacesetter/index.php?id=quotes&subid=downunder&error=1");
		exit;
		}
	else {
		letsgo();
		}
}
else {

bradgrafelman

So you're redirecting them if there's an error? If you redirect them to a new page, then there is no longer any data being POST'ed, meaning the POST array will be empty.

Why not just redisplay the form and output the error message right away instead of the redirect?