Welcome to WebmasterWorld, wileyl!

Would you prefer a JavaScript or a server-side scripting solution? (if server-side please specify which one :))

Thanks eelixduppy.

JavaScript or PHP would be great (whichever is easiest).

Thanks again!

Here's a little javascript I wrote a while back...

// Fills a form with parameters passed by url.
// The standard format is //..../page.html?name1=value1&name2=value2
// Parameters that are not recognised are ignored.
// Parameter names must correspond with element names in the form.
// Names are NOT case sensitive.
// Values are not case sensitive but case is preserved for text fields.
// To set or clear a checkbox, use name=1 or name=0 respectively.
// To set a radiogroup value, use name=value where value is the value of the button to be checked.

function loadParam(f,p) // f is a form, p is a string : 'name=value'
{
 var pa = p.split('='); if (pa.length < 2) return false;
 var n = pa[0].toLowerCase();
 var v = pa[1].toLowerCase();
 with (f) {
 for (var i = 0; i < length; i++) with (elements[i]) {
 if (n == name.toLowerCase()) {
 var tp = type.toLowerCase();
 if (tp == 'select-one') {
 for (var j = 0; j < length; j++) if (options[j].text.toLowerCase() == v) {
 selectedIndex = j;
 break;
}}
 else if ((tp == 'radio') && (value.toLowerCase() == v)) checked = true
 else if (tp == 'checkbox') checked = ((v!= '') && (v.charAt(0)!= '0'))
 else value = pa[1]
 }}
}}

function loadParams(f) // f is a form
{
 var tmp = unescape(document.location.search); if (tmp.charAt(0) == '?') tmp = tmp.substring(1);
 if ((typeof(f) == 'undefined') ¦¦ (tmp == '')) return false;
 tmp = tmp.split('&'); for (var i = 0; i < tmp.length; i++) loadParam(f,tmp[i]); 
}

loadParams(document.forms[0]);

You may need to adjust the formatting to make sense of this code (leading spaces get stripped by WW).

Kaled.