stop reposting a form

[westman]

what is a simple way i can stop reposting a form when i press F5?

[birbal]

if you are posting using POST, it will prompt a message when user press f5 for.

[westman]

yes i see the message all the time but i would like to stop it. to stop the reposting (dubole posting) of all $_POST & $_GET

[birbal]

you can store the form information in session with timestamp. and check the form information and timestamp when your process it. if form information is same in for a particular time span dont process the form. form information could be anything which can identify a form indipendently. like id in target url,

[westman]

like i said a simple way ;)bro am not a php master

[birbal]

i can't think of any other wway. it is not hard , if you did not understand any part of it you can specify it. so that it will be possible to enlighten it.

[kanchatchai]

When Click [New] -->$_session['saved']="FALSE"; When Click [save] -->if ($_session['saved']=="FALSE"){....SAVE...$_session['saved']="True";}

[westman]

how does this work?

[birbal]

do you know how to work with session?

[westman]

yes,i made a login session to a site and if the login session is not there it will logout a user

[birbal]

you can use session like that then.

$timeSpan=300; //time in seconds//check session is set and is form is not posted within 5 minutes if(isset($_SESSION['lastFormUsed'] && $timeSpan>(time()-$_SESSION['lastFormused'])){//process form //mark last time of form processing$_SESSION['lastFormUsed']=time();}else//error handle

that is the concept you can modify it to suite your needs.

[westman]

thank you so much + i got the 20% thing too.

[kanchatchai]

<?PHP  @session_start(); if (!isset($_SESSION['userid'])) {header( 'Location: index.php') ;}?><?PHP echo '<H1>Insert New mytable</H1>'; if ((isset($_POST['submit']) )&&((isset($_SESSION['saved']))&&($_SESSION['saved']=='false')))//<----------------------------Check Session Saved and Submit{  include('connect.php'); $sql="INSERT INTO mytable(firstname,lastname) VALUES ('".$_POST['firstname']."','".$_POST['lastname']."')"; if (!mysql_query($sql,$con)) { echo 'Error While Insert : '.mysql_error();}else {    echo '1 Record Insert Compleated <a href="">[New]</a> <a href="mytable_select.php">[Back To Datasheet View]';    $_SESSION['saved']='true';//<----------------------------Change Session Saved} mysql_close($con);} else {?><form id="insert_mytable" name="insert_mytable" method="POST" action="">id :  AUTO<br/>firstname :  <input type="text" name="firstname" /><br/>lastname :  <input type="text" name="lastname" /><br/>    <input type="reset" name="reset" value="Reset" /><input type="submit" name="submit" value="OK" /><br/></form><br/><?PHP$_SESSION['saved']='false';//<----------------------------First Make it False } //End IF?>