Re: Saving Form Data

Unfortuanetly that would only work for Text and Textarea types. It wouldn't really for for a select, bcause how do you know which option of the form was selected? How do you select the correct option without knowing what the other options are? Ex, a user uploads a form with a select type like so: <select name="Month"> <option value="Jan">Jan</option> <option value="Feb">Feb</option> </select. Your post value would be Month=Feb, if Feb was selected when the form was filled out. Now, I load the form again, I know that Month = Feb, but how to I now make the form preselect the Option? I would somehow have to parse the form data and look for the select of Month and then look through all the options for Feb and insert a selected statement in the form in that spot. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jay Blanchard" <jay.blanchard@niicommunications.com> To: "PHP" <php_list@ibcnetwork.net>; "php" <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 12:58 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Saving Form Data > [snip] > Is there anyway of saving a form with layout and data, without knowing > what the fields are? > I would like to be able to have the use "Upload" there own form. Then > that form can be later viewed and filled out by someone else and be able > to save all the data that was entered. > I can do this easy enough with Text and Textarea type fields, but things > like selects, radios, etc I can't think of a way to save them. > Basically It would be like save a screen capture of the filled out form > for viewing/altering later. > [/snip] > > If the form method is POST all of the data is in the $_POST array which > could be saved to a text file, if GET all of the data is in the $_GET > array. You would have to read out of the saved text file to re-populate > the form for editing or viewing later > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >