Keep POST data in form fields

hcte

I know this is a dumb question, but I didn't find any suggestion about how to do this.
I have an ultra-simple self-submitting php page, which obviously contains a form.
When the user fills the form and submits the data (using method POST), the page is redisplayed with the form, followed by the results of data submission.
The problem is: when the page is redisplayed after the submission the form fields are blank, and instead I want them to contain the data the user typed in the previous submission. Is this expected behavior? Is there a way to do what I want?

The page source is composed of the form (pure html), followed by php code that check whether there is POST data and, if so, does some processing and shows the results.

Thanks

waptech

Yes, something like the following will work:

////above the form
if (isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$username = $_POST['username'];
}

/////in the form

<input type=\"text\" name=\"username\" value=\"$username\" />

As seen just save the submitted values as you would for data transmission, then simply just add them as value="blah" in ur input fields.

Hope this helped

hcte

waptech wrote:
Yes, something like the following will work:
////above the form
if (isset($_POST['submit']))
{
$username = $_POST['username'];
}

/////in the form

<input type=\"text\" name=\"username\" value=\"$username\" />
As seen just save the submitted values as you would for data transmission, then simply just add them as value="blah" in ur input fields.

Hope this helped

Yes, but this works only for text fields. I'd like radio buttons, checkboxes, etc. to be in the same state as they were when submitting the data. Anyhow, I got the idea. I have to check whether there is POST data and assign values/checked status to the various form fields accordingly (which means thay can't be pure HTML anymore). I thought there was an easier way, or that browsers could do this automatically.

Thanks