Hey, I am having a little problem with forms and php on a webpage I am working on. The page is suppose to update people's agendas, I have a dropdown menu that contains the person's department name and agenda dates, with a button next to the dropdown menu. The person selects the contents from the dropdown menu and presses the submit button and then the corresponding information appears in three text boxes below. Simple, you edit the information in the text boxes and press a second submit button at the bottom of the page. This is where the problem occures. After I press the button at the bottom of the page the three text boxes go blank and all the variables seem to go blank (I print some variables at the top of the page. They appear after I press the first button but disappear after I press the second button. So, I assume that they are being cleared.)

All the form tags and button tags have unique names and I have been messing with the forms tags but no matter what I do the second button will not function properly.

Many thanks for any help.

Once you submit a form, you're going to have to make the data in that form persist for processing the next form submit.
The easiest way to do that is have hidden form fields in the second form.

So say, in your first form you had a listbox named "department", you want the data to persist, so in your second form you put a hidden form value to be taken to the next page:

<input type="hidden" name="department" value="<?php echo($department); ?>">

Also be sure to include the same hidden value in the third form!