[thelist] cgi question

Martin martin at members.evolt.org
Sat Jul 8 11:37:05 CDT 2000


Meredith Tupper wrote on 8/7/00 6:34 am

>I'm working on a form with about 20 required items, and
>everything works except for one problem: if someone submits
>the form without entering all the required info, they get an
>error page and have to return to the form, but once they get
>back to the form, all the info they entered is gone.  Is
>there any way I can cache the data that they enter so they
>don't have to start again?

You could rewrite the error code page such that it puts out
the error message (of course), followed by the same form
fields, with all but the problem ones prepopulated. Or even
just the problem ones.

Cheers
Martin




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