luckky300

I am stuck on trying to get the form to repopulate after a failed validation. The real form involves REST calls and such but I trimmed the code back to this issue. I think I need to declare the variables differently. I also tried to use the variables in the PHP script to refill the form with the original form entries. I have tried numerous ways of getting the variables to repopulate but could never get it to work consistently (such as declaring global variables. Here is the form code: <div> <a name="error_field"></a> <?php if($_GET['error']): ?> <div style="padding:10px;border:1px solid;color:#C70C0C;"><?php echo $_GET['error'] ?></div> <?php endif; ?> <div> <form method="post" action="process2.php"> <fieldset name="Group1"> <legend>Account Registration</legend> <div id="field"><label id="Firstname">First Name:</label></div> <div id="input"><input name="Firstname" id="Firstname" type="text" value="<?php $_POST['Firstname']?>"/></div> <div id="field"><label id="Lastname">Last Name:</label></div> <div id="input"><input name="Lastname" id="Lastname" type="text" value="<?php $_POST['Lastname']?>"/></div> <div id="field"><label id="Username">E-Mail Username):</label></div> <div id="input"><input name="Username" type="text" value="<?= $_POST['Username']?>"/></div> <div id="field"><label id="Password">Password:</label></div> <div id="input"><input name="Password" type="password" /></div> <div class="center" style="margin-top:15px;margin-bottom:15px"> <input name="Submitx" type="submit" value="submit" /> <input name="Reset1" type="reset" value="reset" /> </div> </fieldset></form> </div> </div> and here is the PHP which I have on a different page <?php $new_user_username = check_input($_POST['Username'], "Enter your e-mail"); $new_user_password = check_input($_POST['Password'], "Enter your password"); $new_user_first_name = check_input($_POST['Firstname'], "Enter your first name"); $new_user_last_name = check_input($_POST['Lastname'], "Enter your last name"); /* If e-mail is not valid show error message */ if (!preg_match("/([\w\-]+\@[\w\-]+\.[\w\-]+)/", $new_user_username)) { show_error("E-mail address not valid"); } else{ header('Location: TY.php'); } function check_input($data, $problem='') { $data = trim($data); $data = stripslashes($data); $data = htmlspecialchars($data); if ($problem && strlen($data) == 0) { show_error($problem); } return $data; } function show_error($myError) { header('Location: tp1.php?error=' . $myError); exit(); } ?> Thanks in advance for any help.