[pmwiki-users] how to re-show form with pre-existing field data?

[Patrick R. Michaud]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:43:53PM +0100, Hans wrote:
> Monday, May 21, 2007, 4:43:39 PM, Shi Sherebrin wrote:
> 
> > There are some required fields, and when they are left blank, the form is
> > re-displayed with a "data missing" message.  However, when this 
> > happens all the other forms that *were* filled out come back blank.  
> > Apparently this is something that should be solvable at the PmWiki 
> > level.  I'd welcome ideas for how to do this.
> 
> try in a local config file:
> 
> # POST input values will be preserved
> foreach ($_POST as $k=>$v) {
>    if(!is_array($v)) 
>      $InputValues[$k] = htmlspecialchars($v);
> }

In later betas one can also use the markup

   (:input defaults request=1 :)

to get the same effect.

Pm