Populate form from the form of previous page?

[rick_cols]

Hi,

I am trying to figure out how to implement the following:

on the first page, I have a form naed form1 and two fields: name and phone.
<form name="form1" action="nextPage.php" method="post">
<table>
<tr>
<td> Name:<input id="name" size="10" name="name"></td>
<td> Phone:<input id="name" size="10" name="phone"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="button" value="Submit" name="Submit"></td>
</tr>
</table>

on the second page, I have another form but with more fields:
<form name="form2" action="nextPage.php" method="post">
<table>
<tr>
<td> Name:<input id="name" size="10" name="name"></td>
<td> Phone:<input id="phone" size="10" name="phone"></td>
<td> Zip Code:<input id="zipcode" size="5" name="zipcode"></td>
<td> Address:<input id="address" size="30" name="address"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="button" value="Submit" name="Submit2"></td>
</tr>
</table>

What I am trying to do is: user fills in name/phone on the first page, hits
submit button, she goes to the second page. On the second page, I want to have name/phone fields automatically filled with previous values from first page.

How can I do that?

thanks,

[aj_nsc]

If these are php pages, and I assume they are because you have title the action in your form nextPage.php, you can just use the code as follows for your second page

<form name="form2" action="nextPage.php" method="post">
<table>
<tr>
<td> Name:<input id="name" size="10" name="name" value="<?php echo $_POST['name']; ?>"></td>
<td> Phone:<input id="phone" size="10" name="phone" value="<?php echo $_POST['phone']; ?>"></td>
<td> Zip Code:<input id="zipcode" size="5" name="zipcode"></td>
<td> Address:<input id="address" size="30" name="address"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="button" value="Submit" name="Submit2"></td>
</tr>
</table>

And to give you some information about php.....

The information you submit through a form using the get method is available through the variables

$_GET['name_of_field']

and the information you submit through a form using the post method is available through the variables

$_POST['name_of_field']

Hope that helps

[rick_cols]

Thank you very much, that does the trick.