Preserving form information

[A.Kelly]

Two problems that I'm having (due to being a n00bie) are:

The form I'm using is the basic form with a username, email address
etc.. the two that I'm most concerned about are the Gender, and State
form entries.

Gender is of course two radio buttons.

<input name="gender" type="radio" id="male" value="M"> M
<input name="gender" type="radio" id="female" value="F">F

None of the two are checked by default, but what I'd like to do is
this.. if the user doesn't enter a required information field, keep
the information that he has listed thus far. So if they entered M or
F, but didn't enter a required field and the form reloads I want their
chioce to still be 'checked'.

With the other forms this works fine, for example, with $first_name =
$_post['first_name'] and the forms value of <? echo $first_name ?>
But, boiling it all down to my main question - How do I keep the radio
button information for the reloaded form?


Thanks in advance for any information,
A.Kelly

[OSIRIS]

Re: Preserving form information

A.Kelly wrote:
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> Two problems that I'm having (due to being a n00bie) are:
>
> The form I'm using is the basic form with a username, email address
> etc.. the two that I'm most concerned about are the Gender, and State
> form entries.
>
> Gender is of course two radio buttons.
>
> <input name="gender" type="radio" id="male" value="M"> M
> <input name="gender" type="radio" id="female" value="F">F
>
> None of the two are checked by default, but what I'd like to do is
> this.. if the user doesn't enter a required information field, keep
> the information that he has listed thus far. So if they entered M or
> F, but didn't enter a required field and the form reloads I want their
> chioce to still be 'checked'.
>
> With the other forms this works fine, for example, with $first_name =
> $_post['first_name'] and the forms value of <? echo $first_name ?>
> But, boiling it all down to my main question - How do I keep the radio
> button information for the reloaded form?
>
>
> Thanks in advance for any information,
> A.Kelly[/color]
Hi,

I think you can reloaded the formwith a php script: with an argument in
the url: form.php?gender =M or F.

Bye

[Geoff Berrow]

Re: Preserving form information

I noticed that Message-ID:
<79609ed4.03112 22051.7b9d4f41@ posting.google. com> from A.Kelly contained
the following:
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>With the other forms this works fine, for example, with $first_name =
>$_post['first_name'] and the forms value of <? echo $first_name ?>
>But, boiling it all down to my main question - How do I keep the radio
>button information for the reloaded form?[/color]

add variables to the buttons



Then it's just an if statement

if(isset($_POST['gender'])){
$statusm="";
$statusf="";
if($_POST['gender']=="M"){$statusm ="checked"}
else{$statusf=" checked"}
}
<input name="gender" type="radio" id="male" value="M"<?php echo $statusm
?>> M
<input name="gender" type="radio" id="female" value="F"<?php echo
$statusf ?>>F

Untested.
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