Question

Is there a way to check the data sent by a form to a PHP page return to the form page WITHOUT resetting the data sent and show a error?

The form has 20 fields and I need to check one of them on a bd. If it fails the user may be redirected to the form page with the form populated and displaying a error message on the field which is ‘wrong’.

I would like any advice of a technique instead of populating each field using PHP.

UPDATE:

I do not want to use any solution that involves repopulate the fields by myself!!!

I want a solution that return to the form page populated with the previous values. I’ve tried something like js.history.back or window.back(). But the form returns empty…

UPDATE: If you are looking for this type of behavior, nowadays there are several different techniques to achive this. I’m currently using jQuery (Ajax).

Answer 1

In your form fields HTML, add posted values as field value.

e.g:

<input type='text' name='email' value='<?php echo $_POST['email']; ?>' />