When we press the back button the form values are lost

[amir4oracle]

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

 

[jpadie]

values are lost

that's surprising. usually the user agents resend the data.

but you can secure it at the server side using sessions

 

[Aron2]

Ya, store the data is session variables, and have your form populate from those variables automatically if they are set. as in:

<?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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