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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "PHP" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "php" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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
>
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