I have 2 questions:
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How do you stop a PHP script from erasing the form fields when you do the submit? I’ve searched many posts here, most regarding JS which I’m not using. I’ve tried
auto-complete="new-password"but that didn’t appear to work. I would like the form data to remain after a submit so that if it needs to be updated the user doesn’t need to re-enter everything. Here’s a sample of what I mean:<code><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta charset="UTF-8"></meta><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"></meta><title>create</title></head><body><form method="post"><label for="sometext"></label><input type="sometext" id="sometext" name="sometext" /><button name="save">Save File</button></form><?phpif(isset($_POST['save'])){$text = $_POST['sometext'];$file=fopen("myfile.txt", "w");fwrite($file, $text);fclose($file);}?></body></html></code><code><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"></meta> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"></meta> <title>create</title> </head> <body> <form method="post"> <label for="sometext"></label> <input type="sometext" id="sometext" name="sometext" /> <button name="save">Save File</button> </form> <?php if(isset($_POST['save'])) { $text = $_POST['sometext']; $file=fopen("myfile.txt", "w"); fwrite($file, $text); fclose($file); } ?> </body> </html> </code><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta charset="UTF-8"></meta> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"></meta> <title>create</title> </head> <body> <form method="post"> <label for="sometext"></label> <input type="sometext" id="sometext" name="sometext" /> <button name="save">Save File</button> </form> <?php if(isset($_POST['save'])) { $text = $_POST['sometext']; $file=fopen("myfile.txt", "w"); fwrite($file, $text); fclose($file); } ?> </body> </html> -
What is that ‘/’ at the end of an input, for example the input line in the attached code?
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