On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 14:44 -0700, milt wrote: > I have a form that will be filled in by the user, I want to have access to > the content of one of the fields in that form, in order to fill in an > another variable that is not part of the form. this variable is used by a > routine when the form is "posted". Question - is the $_post[field name] > availble before the submit button is pushed, or is there another way to get > the contents of the field? PHP only gets what the browser sends. The browser doesn't send until you click the submit button (or perform a synonymous action). You'll need to use JavaScript to work on data before it is submitted. Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php