show info on screen first

I have a form that has the details put into a database, but I need to show the information on the screen first so the person can say 'validate it'.
how do i show the information from the form, and how do i then pass the information to the page that adds the detail to the database?

[stuart]

Well you need to do something like this:

<?

// you could create temp vars

$field1 = $_POST['field1'];

$field2 = $_POST['fiels2'];

// ... and so on.



// show the form fields to the user

echo "<b>Field1:</b> $field1<br/>";

echo "<b>Field2:</b> $field<br/>";

?>

<form name="validate" method="post" action="dbscript.php">

<input type="hidden" name="field1" value="<?=$field1?>">

<input type="hidden" name="field2" value="<?=$field2?>">

<input type="submit" name="submit" value="continue">

</form>

As you can see you need to use hidden fields to store the values - then this will allow you to pass them to the next page.

hope this helps

Stuart

Well, excuse me for my English, as well as for the intervention.
If you use some JavaScript in your pages, you can also avoid posting twice, by replacing the submit button with another button and a JS function that does what you need before posting, open a popup with the information of your form, if OK, you call form.submit, otherwise you get back to the form (nothing to do, or maybe a focus on the right place).
I hope it will help, even if I don't give technical details.
A++

[ctiberg]

This would force you to use 'human-friendly' names in your POST form, but anyways:

for ($_POST as $key => $val)
print $key.": ".$val."
";

[stuart]

that is a good simple way to see all passed form fields. but shouldn't it be:

PHP Code:

foreach($_POST as $key => $val) {
 echo $key." -> ".$val."
";
}