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How "autofill" A Form Field?

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I'd like to know if there's a way to "autofill" form fields. On a web page (that I call A), i have a form with two text fields called F1 and F2. I want that clicking on a link on another page (B, for example) the page A will open and the field F1 will contain, for example, "choice 1". While clicking on another link in the same page (cool.gif the field F1 will contain "choice 2".
I hope that you have understand my explanation.

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Tyssen
You can use $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] to detect what page the user is on before arriving at the form then use an if else statement to print out a different value for each case e.g.
CODE
<input type="text" value="
<? php
if ($something = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) {
print "first message";
else
print "second message";
}
?>
">

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theRealSheep
I'm sure ther would be a better way of doing this, but I have an answer for you using JavaScript.

Your suggested 'Page B' would contain the following <script> tag, where "a.html" is the path to your suggested 'Page A'.
CODE
<script language="JavaScript1.2" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function NextPage(choice) {
 document.FormB.inputValue.value = choice;
 openWin = window.open("a.html", "Page_A", "");
 }
//-->
</script>

then, your 'links' on Page B would be buttons in a form, where the text you want entered on the next page is in the onClick event. eg. Input for Choice 1.
HTML
<form name="FormB">
<input type="hidden" name="inputValue" value="">
<p><input type="button" name="choice_1" value="This is 'Choice 1'" onClick="NextPage('Input for Choice 1')">
<p><input type="button" name="choice_2" value="This is 'Choice 2'" onClick="NextPage('Input for Choice 2')">
</form>


Now over on 'Page A', place the following script, where F1 is the name of the input field (which is in the form named FormA, as shown below).
CODE
<script language="JavaScript1.2" type="text/javascript">
<!--
function fillField() {
 document.FormA.F1.value = window.opener.document.FormB.inputValue.value;
}
//-->
</script>

... and then you will need to add an OnLoad event to the <body> tag of Page A to transfer the value
HTML
<body onLoad="fillField()">
<form name="FormA">
<p><input type="text" name="F1">
<p><input type="text" name="F2">
</form>
</body>


I hope this helps and solves the idea that you are trying to explain.

 

 

 


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