Try taking the value='' out of your form fields.
if you have it reseting the values every time the page is loaded, it will
reset the values.
Jim Lucas
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim McNeely" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 3:20 AM
Subject: [PHP]IE6 back button problems
> Here's a puzzler, I've searched the archives and couldn't find a
> satisfactory answer, and it would be nice to have one in the archives.
>
> I'm working on a web app that draws a search screen with fields coming
> from settings in a database.
>
> When you do the search, it works fine, but in IE 6 on WinXP when you
> hit the back button it loses the user's form field entries. This is not
> true of IE 5 on the mac, Safari, etc. I've tried all kinds of tweaks to
> the settings in IE6's internet options to no avail.
>
> However, I think it is too simplistic to say that it is just the
> browser, because IE6 maintains form field entries when using the back
> button on some sites, like google.
>
> All pages in the web app force a refresh by sending these headers:
> ##########Header Info to force refresh############
> header( "Last-Modified: " .
> gmdate( "D, d M Y H:i:s",
> filemtime( $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'] ) ) .
> " GMT");
> header("Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate");
> header("Cache-Control: post-check=0, precheck=0", false);
> header("Pragma: no-cache");
> ##################################################
>
> I've tried commenting out some or all of these to no avail, it still
> loses the user's form fields.
>
> HOWEVER, I also tried setting a test session variable to something in
> the search results page, and when you hit the back button in IE6 if you
> echo that variable on the search page it echoes the NEW value; other
> browsers it does NOT. So IE6 is requerying for the page without resort
> to a cache, while the others are using cached pages. All the header
> code hooie doesn't seem to affect any of this when you are talking
> about the back button.
>
> TIA
>
> Jim McNeely
>
>
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