[BNM] PHP Question

[Alan Braddish]

Jay, Thanks,

I have sorted it out using Session vars.  Once the form is posted, the
session captures the form.  If the form is re-displayed, value="" fields are
populated, including drop-downs, radio and check boxes.

It works a treat, but was quite labour intensive, considering the form had
80 or so fields!

Wonder if there is a shortcut way of doing this in PHP?

Alan

-----Original Message-----
From: bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org
[mailto:bnmlist-bounces at brightonnewmedia.org] On Behalf Of Jay Caines-Gooby
Sent: 09 February 2007 15:47
To: Brighton New Media
Subject: Re: [BNM] PHP Question

On 2/9/07, Alan Braddish <alan at webspoke.co.uk> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Got a problem with a PHP form.  When a user fills out the form, and clicks
> Submit, they are taken to a "thank you" page.  However, if the user clicks
> the browser's back button, they go back to the form, but all the form
field
> contents are blank, as if the page has reloaded?
>
> Is there any way to stop this behaviour so that if they click back, the
> forms contents are preserved?

This should be a function of the PHP page rendering the form; on first
view all fields are blank, on backup the session management you employ
should ensure that all the value= attributes are set and any chosen
options in select lists are retained.

There's nothing more infruiating than a form that validates, tells you
that you've left a mandatory entry blank and then forces you to fill
out the *whole form again*, because they can't be arsed to try and
retain your input.

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