How to add the asterix beside unfilled fields

[DrFishNips]

You know the way some sites when your signing up and you forget to fill in a required field it sends you back to the form and the fields you missed then have red asterixes beside them. How do they do it? I was going to use sessions but thats causing me problems so I need an alternative.

 

My registration page detects if a field hasn't been filled then a <meta content="3;url=?page=register\" http-equiv=\"refresh\"> tag reloads the registration page. Any idea how I can make the registration page indicate which fields were left blank without using sessions? I doubt anyone uses sessions for this kinda thing because they take so long to expire. How do they do it?

[Alex]

Without sessions you'd have to redo the way you're currently doing it. Because the way to do it without sessions is having form verification on the same page.

[cunoodle2]

You could have like a hidden value "step" and set it to something when the form is submitted.

 

On the validation portion do...

 

if ($step == 2 && $name == "")
echo "*";