okay so i have a php page thats post a peice of data to hello.php hello php is basically just an echo stament echoing out html
the problems comes when trying to add postdata to a hiddin input field
heres an example of my hello.php code
<?php
echo"
<form action='polly.php' method='post' required='required'>
<input class='required' name='fpuser' id='fpuser' value=\"$_POST\">
";
?>
this above works fine but then when i try to access a post key like so my page just does not work
<?php
echo"
<form action='polly.php' method='post' required='required'>
<input class='required' name='fpuser' id='fpuser' value=\"$_POST['username']\">
";
?>
how can i fix this people