I have two problems here:

1. In a form, if i send a data, then suddenly if there's an error, I will need to press the back button. But suddenly, all the data entered before in the form were gone and I have to start all over again. Any idea on how to maintain the data?

2. I want to submit date in a form. as we know, the format will be yyyy-dd-mm, which means in a form, if I want to enter the date data '4th of July 2005', i have to type 2005-04-07. Any idea or codes on how to make this more friendlier?

umm... try www.dynamicdrive.com for some javascript scripts that you can probably mod for php use.

Chris

just have the form values map back to the POST array values.

I.E value="<?php $_POST['whatever']" ?>

You might have to echo that out but that should be your problem solved. I try and use javascript for this stuff though as you can make the client do the dirty work without having to submit to the server only to fail.

So javascript only returns true if all valid then the page submits.

Ibbo