Hi Kevin,
Bunch of thanks to you. It works beautifully! Now, all I have to do is go
back over 200+ files and fix 'em all!
Sigh . . . nice way to memorize your code! :>
Btw, in my test code, I did have the ending ?> -- matter of act, I had two of
them!! Hmmm -- it amazing how easily the obvious can escape my attention.
Regards,
Andre
On Tuesday 26 November 2002 02:43 pm, Kevin Stone wrote:
> > <input type=text size=20 name=rsname <?php if($_SESSION['rfname'] !=
> > ''){print "value='{$_SESSION['rfname']}'';}>
> >
> > but I just get a ? in the value field, not the name.
>
> Yeah there's a good reason for that. You're not ending yoiur PHP tag! :-P
>
> Joking aside you're on the right track. This IS the way to do it. You
> should never rely on the browsers cache to re-input form values in a
> multi-page form. Allow me to clean that up for you a bit..
>
> <input type="text" size="20" name="rsname" value="<? if
> (!empty($_SESSION['rsname'])) echo $_SESSION['rsname'];?>">
>
> Hope that helps. Good luck.
>
> -Kevin
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Andre Dubuc" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2002 12:29 PM
> Subject: [PHP] IE Problems: disappearing text with 'Back' button
>
> > A few people using IE have complained that when they click the 'Back'
>
> button
>
> > to edit their registration form, all info is lost and they're presented
>
> with
>
> > a blank form.
> >
> > I've read archives on this, and I really don't know what to do. The
>
> referring
>
> > page starts with
> >
> > <?php session_start() ob_start(); ?> and I know the session variables
> > are passed. The referring page is headered to the check page where users
> > would click 'Back'
> >
> > The session variables are there too. Is there some way that I could:
> >
> > (a) Prevent the 'blank-form-syndrome'
> >
> > or
> >
> > (b) Encode the <input type=text size=20 name=rfname> so that the name is
> > filled in - I've tried:
> >
> > <input type=text size=20 name=rsname <?php if($_SESSION['rfname'] !=
> > ''){print "value='{$_SESSION['rfname']}'';}>
> >
> > but I just get a ? in the value field, not the name.
> >
> > or
> >
> > (c) As much as hate to use it, javascript. I've coded everything without
>
> it,
>
> > so only if I can't accomplish a reasonable approximation of 'Back' in a
>
> php
>
> > hack.
> >
> > or
> >
> > (d)I read in one of the last archived messages about a workaround. After
>
> the
>
> > user clicks 'Back' and is confronted with a now-virgin form, all they
>
> have
>
> > to do is click 'Refresh' in IE. Question is, does IE have a 'Refresh'
>
> button,
>
> > and does this, in fact, work? I have no way of testing this since I only
>
> have
>
> > Linux running. So, if some kind soul could verify whether this is true,
> > it would save me a whole pile of coding!
> >
> > I would be very grateful for any suggestions on to retrieve hyper-lost
>
> data
>
> > input using php.
> >
> > Tia, Andre
> >
> >
> >
> >
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