Re: PHP inside Javascript

Ron Newman writes: > At 11:26 AM 9/5/00 -0700, you wrote: > It's been a while, I've been off on other things, and now back to this. Is > this what I meant? Sortof. But: > What's the best way to "re-fill the form inputs" without using javascript, > before presenting the form page again? > - print a META tag with refresh > - header(Location:...) > I'm not aware that either of these know anything about forms. I use META > refresh in another place to propagate form data, but that's in conjunction > with an HTML tab: > <BODY onLoad="javasubmitfunction()"> > in which case we're back to Javascript, the very thing I'm trying to avoid. > > Hmmm. You can preset a form <input> by printing a variable into its value attribute: <form action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF ?>" method="post"> <input type="text" name="username" value="<?php echo $username ?>"> <!-- For a <textarea>, you'd do it like this: --> <textarea name="foo"> <?php echo $foo ?> </textarea> <input type="submit"> </form> You'll probably want to trim() the $foo from that last one, actually...:) But that shows the basic idea... -- +----------------------------------------------------------------+ |Torben Wilson <torben@php.net> Netmill iTech| |http://www.coastnet.com/~torben http://www.netmill.fi| |Ph: 1 250 383-9735 torben@netmill.fi| +----------------------------------------------------------------+