Re: quick form question

"Alexander Ross" <alexross@bleen.net> wrote in message news:20020808162929.17218.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > I have a .php with a simple form in it to populate a table in a mysql db. > When the user clicks submit, I check to make sure he/she entered the > required info and if all is well, I add the data to teh DB. If he/she left > out some info, I echo "You left out some info" and I redisplay the form. > When I do this all the info that the user typed originally is gone. Whats > the easiest way to put back what he/she already typed? Thanks Similar to the other posts: What I do on forms is to first capture the input into another variable such as: $firstName = trim($_POST['firstName']); If it's a post request: I validate all of the input. If everything is fine, I addslashes, insert/update the database, and re-direct to another page that indicates sucess in one way or another. Otherwise I load error messages, and fall through to the get handler which displays the form. In the get handler you can use the value="<?php echo $firstName ?>" to retain the text input. Radio buttons, checkboxes and selects are a little harder and I wrote functions for that.