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Junior Mechanic
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I have a html webpage that has a form I would like to take that info and copy it in to a new webpage so they can review that the info is entered in correctly and then have a submit button that emails me the info. How would I go about doing this? Thanks
 
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Honorary Mechanic
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I'm by no means an expert here, but I believe you'll still need a "submit" on your form to activate the process that will copy/display the entered information on a different page. Are you then going to allow the user to edit/modify the information on that page or go back to the original form and update things there? I think it might be easier to simply include a check box on the original form asking the user to check it after verifying their entries.
 
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Junior Mechanic
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I was going to have them go back to the original form and make changes there. Help is very much appreciated
 
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Honorary Mechanic
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You'll have to write a script, probably in php, to accomplish what you want to do. More than likely you'll have to publish one or both pages as php and not html to make things work.

I'm a firm believer in the KISS method and to reiterate, would simply have them verify their information on the original form page and then submit it once rather than having them bounce back-and-forth between pages.
 
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Guru 'Geezer' Mechanic
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If you really want to do this instead of taking Kirk's suggestion to warn them to verify the data before hitting the submit button, you could pass the data to another page and let javascript fill in the form again, and make them click the submit button again. This is basically what e-retailers do when you go from page to page, building the order.

If you are not adding additional info from another page, but just redisplaying what they entered, I would think it would tend to irritate your visitors rather than help them. In this case it would be better if you added a verification script to check their entered data when the submit button is clicked and if verification fails, this would allow them to make corrections.
 
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