Re: Advanced Form Processing HELP

From: Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 04:06:52 +0000
Subject: Re: Advanced Form Processing HELP
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"Lang Sharpe" <langsharpe1@optushome.com.au> wrote in message news:20010823040307.58834.qmail@pb1.pair.com... > Can't be done AFAIK. Because your webserver never receives the information > when the page is reloaded, you can't send it back to him when he reloads. only partly correct. it can't be done using PHP (and since we're in PHP discussion list I'll presume with "Can't be done" you were referring to PHP), because it's a SERVER-SIDE language and by hitting refresh you're not actually sending any formdata to the server. you could, however, get some client-side scripting language to store cookies everytime data is changed in the form-fields. JavaScript would be a good start. check at www.javascriptsource.com - they probably have a similar script that you can then slightly adapt. cheers, raphael

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