> <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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