PHP Hidden Fields not passing between forms

[jacftp]

Hi all.

I have a registration system setup that has worked fine for all for several years. I have three forms and am passing data between forms using the following hidden field code:

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

etc.

It's working fine for everyone however there is one registrant where the data is not passing between forms for them. I only get the last page form data written into the MySql database.

I was wondering if anyone has experienced this or know why the browser or user can't pass the data from the first two forms? Is this the result of something being turned off in the browser? Cookies?

Thank you!

[leatherback]

I cannot think of a good reason why this would not work, except for the fact that if this truely is your code, you are missing one " which would result in the value to not be surrounded by quotes, which my give hickups. As all else is done server-side, it should worlk

[jacftp]

Thank you for your post! I goofed when I pasted ~ the quote is actually there in my code. I appreciate the response! I can't figure any reason either!

[johanafm]

You should

<input type="hidden" name="Name"
value="<?php echo htmlentities($_POST['Name'], ENT_QUOTES, 'utf-8'); ?>

Else someone named I_broke_your_html_code_with_double_quote" will screw things up.

And the same applies if you store things in the DB, and then pull it out again for the subsequent forms. You would need to use mysql_real_escape_string or whatever escape function your database and db driver uses.

If those things don't work, what does the code look like for dealing with the name through each form, and what's the user's name?

[jacftp]

Thank you for the code redo. I'll give it a test run!