Form Confirmation Data

I have a question about form confirmation pages. I have always used Frontpage with the server extensions. That made confirmation pages easy, I just had to add “confirmation fields” to the success page to show the data that the user entered. Lets face it, Frontpage is outdated and limited – so I’m trying to move away from it. My question – How do I get the form confirmation pages to show the data on a confirmation page? Is there an easy way to just make changes to my old Frontpage page?

For example, if my form has a text box named “Name” – what does the confirmation page need in order to show that data?

Thanks,
Jason

You can do something like this... (Using Server Side Scripting [PHP in this case]).
form.html

process.php

Where the "name" in $_POST['name']; is the name in <input type="text" name="name" size="25" />

The $_POST['...'] is the headers the form sends to the action page (in the "action" attribute) and you are using $_POST becuase the method specified is post.

If you were using a get method (passing the variables through the URL), you would be using "$_GET" rather than "$_POST" (note the GET and POST in $_GET and $_POST are CAPITALIZED).

I think this is what you want and would help you out... you would need PHP enabled in your server.

do you know which language the server is using? ASP, PHP, CSP, Something Else ... ? Because the way Bogey explained is perfect ... for PHP, but will obviously not work if your host supports ASP, or CSP or Anything else other than PHP ...

They do use PHP, because I currently have a web form processor working. I have a product from Conkurent named WebForm Processor. It spits me out a code like this:
<form name="Contact" action="http://****.com/wfp/wfp_core.php" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="page_unique_id" value="c81e728d9d4c2f636f067f89cc14862c">

<!-- Your form code here -->


</form>
So while the answer Bogey (Thank You!) gave sounds very easy to follow, I'm guessing that I would no longer be able to use that form handler (used for email and saving to CSV). Is this something that I should be asking Conkurent? Any other Ideas?
Thanks!

Why don't you just add the "Your name is: <strong>{$_POST['name']}</strong>;\n"; to the wfp_core.php wherever you need it? Or did I misunderstood you here?

I think Bogey's answer should work. I'm assuming your confirmation page is generated somewhere in that wfp_core.php file, so you would just have to find that part of the file and add in the variables as Bogey described above.