[Regicide]

I know that there is a way to have sessions save data from the previous page. This is so when you press the "back" button on IE, the text in the textboxes will still be there. Does anyone know how to do this?

[brendandonhu]

PHP can only save the data if the form is submitted. But once the form field's value is in a variable, yes you can pre-populate a textbox with it.
If the person's name was in a session variable called NAME, you could use this for your textbox.

PHP Code:

<input type="text" name="name" value="<?php echo $_SESSION['NAME'] ?>">

[deuce868]

there are actually several ways to do this. Session variables are generally forwned upon.

The way I get around them is that I have the form post to the same page it is on. I then detect if the submit button has been pressed with

if( isset($_POST['submit']) && $_POST['submit'] == "submit" ) {

This way all of my values from before are in the $_POST array on this page and if there is an error I can simply toss the values into and array and resue them on the same page. There is no need to use two pages to validate a form.