Submitting a form to reload the same page (Please help)

bleep99

I'm designing a PHP page that will reload the same page upon submission. The page has several forms. The problem I have is that all the fields in my form are reset upon submission. Is there a way to keep this data in the forms after clicking submit or having an onChange submit activated? The forms consist of dropdown menus, text boxes and checkboxes

Thanks

dagon

what you do is repopulate the form with the submitted data somelike

<input type="text" name="title" value="'.$_POST"title"].'">

bleep99

I tried that but it doesn't seem to work....

<label>
 <b> MPLS Base Label: </b> </label>
 <?php echo ('
 <input type="number" name="base_ix" value="'.$_POST["base_ix"].'"; />');
 ?>

Could someone please tell me what's wrong with this...

mahipm

That should have worked... but you could try this instead =)

$sname   = ''; // declare the variable first.. so, no errors
$email   = '';
$subject = '';
$message = '';

if(isset($_POST['send'])) //if form is sent
{
   $sname = $_POST['sname']; //post form values
   $email   = $_POST['email'];
   $subject = $_POST['subject'];
   $message = $_POST['message'];

... validate items... send..
or if error.. show form again...
<input name="sname" type="text" value="<?=$sname;?>">

mahipm

bleep99;10890323 wrote:
I tried that but it doesn't seem to work....
<label>
 <b> MPLS Base Label: </b> </label>
 <?php echo ('
 <input type="number" name="base_ix" value="'.$_POST["base_ix"].'"; />');
 ?>
Could someone please tell me what's wrong with this...

Oh and when you echo HTML, echo should use double quote
and html use single quote.. or php will be mixed with html tags.

Not sure if the single quote work too as you used... i'm just learning PHP.

<?php
// This won't work because of the quotes around specialH5!
echo "<h5 class="specialH5">I love using PHP!</h5>";  

// OK because we escaped the quotes!
echo "<h5 class=\"specialH5\">I love using PHP!</h5>";  

// OK because we used an apostrophe '
echo "<h5 class='specialH5'>I love using PHP!</h5>";  

?> ~ From Tizag - PHP echo.

bleep99

I figured out that I needed to use $GET instead of $POST. So now, I have text fields that maintain their value (thanks!). But I'm not sure on how to implement that in a drop down menu.... This is what my menu's look like now ($slots is an array).

<label>Slot 0: </label>
<SELECT  NAME="Slot0" onChange="checkers.submit();" >
<?php
foreach ($slots as $s0) {
	echo '<option value="'.$s0.'">'.$s0.'</option>';
	}
?>

Could anyone tell me how I could ensure that the selected value remains selected upon submission of the page?