Re: keeping form field data when reloading a form
| From: | chip dot wiegand at simrad dot com | Date: | Wed, 21 Aug 2002 16:08:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: keeping form field data when reloading a form | ||
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Thanks, that works great.
--
Chip
"Stuart McDonald" <stuart@fourelephants.com> wrote on 08/20/2002 05:55:40
PM:
> Are you setting the variables in the form?
> Something like this - note the value field in the username field:
> <form method="post" action="index.php" name="loginuser">
> <table summary="layout table to hold login data" width="300"
> align="center" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="0"
> border="0" bgcolor="
#ffffff">
> <tr>
> <td align="left"><p
> class="small"><b>Username:</b></p></td>
> <td align="left"><input type="text" name="username"
> value="<?php echo
> $username;?>" maxlength="50" size="15" style="width: 120px;
> font-size:
> 12px"></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td align="left"> <p
> class="small"><b>Password:</b></p></td>
> <td align="left"><input type="password"
> name="password" maxlength="50"
> size="15" style="width: 120px; font-size: 12px">
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td align="left"><p> </p></td>
> <td align="left"><p><input type="submit"
> value="login" name="login"
> style="width: 50px; heigth: 18px; font-size: 12px"></p></td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </form>
> This way, depending on how youare refreshing the login form, if the
> $username variable passed your validation tests it should be set
> automatically into the form.
> Cheers
> Stuart
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <chip.wiegand@simrad.com>
> To: "PHP_DB" <php-db@lists.php.net>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 12:58 AM
> Subject: [PHP-DB] keeping form field data when reloading a form
>
> > I have my email checker working now, and all the other fields are
checked
> > also, but when I do enter
> > some wrong data the form is reloaded with all blank fields. I'm sure
there
> > is a way to keep the existing
> > data in the fields so the end-user will only have to change the
incorrect
> > fields, and not have to re-enter
> > all the data. But how?
> >
> > --
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