Re: initializing HTML form using PHP
| From: | Daniel Clark | Date: | Fri, 30 Apr 2004 21:24:15 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: initializing HTML form using PHP | ||
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That is the way I've done it.
I hear that with PEAR, you can add elments to the HTML page.
> I have a large HTML form (~100 form elements) that I used a year ago to
> conduct a survey. Now I would like to use this same form but rather than
> starting with an empty form I would like to populate the form with a
> user's
> survey response from last year. I have the survey data in a mysql db and
> I
> know how to use PHP to retrieve a user's data. However, the only way I
> know
> to insert a user's data into a form is to embed value="<?php echo $var; >"
> statements for each form element (text, checkbox, drop-down, etc). This
> is
> pretty messy, especially for drop-down lists.
>
> Is there a cleaner, easier way to do this?
>
> Denis
>
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