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When we press the back button the form values are lost

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amir4oracle

Programmer
Nov 3, 2004
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CA
How can we retain the values for textarea, radio buttons, check boxes, select option drop down etc in a form? Because when we press the back/forward buttons the values are lost.

Your help is highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Amir
 
values are lost
that's surprising. usually the user agents resend the data.

but you can secure it at the server side using sessions
 
Ya, store the data is session variables, and have your form populate from those variables automatically if they are set. as in:
Code:
<?php
$_SESSION["example"] = isset($_POST["example"]) ? $_POST["example"] : "";
?>

<form method="post">
<input type="text" name="example" value="<?php echo $_SESSION["example"] ?>" />
</form>

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