Posted by Shelly on 11/14/06 21:13

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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> Shelly wrote:
>> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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>>
>>>Shelly wrote:
>>>
>>>>I have the following for a test of the submit button being pressed:
>>>>
>>>>if (isset($_POST['theSubmitButton'])) {
>>>>
>>>>This works fine and I have been doing this for a long time. Here is the
>>>>question:
>>>>
>>>>If I do a submit and have it come back to the same page, all is fine.
>>>>If I now click the browser refresh button, I get another submittal. How
>>>>do I "unset" the status so that it doesn't think I clicked the submit
>>>>button when I click the refresh button?
>>>>
>>>>Shelly
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>You can't just unset a $_POST variable (well, you can, but it won't work
>>>like you want). When your user hits reload on the browser, the browser
>>>will resend the post, setting it again.
>>>
>>>You can, for instance, have the submit button go to another page to
>>>process the data, then redirect back to your original page with a
>>>header() call.
>>
>>
>> I already tried something like this just after I submitted the original
>> post. I had the original submit button force the processing of the post
>> and at the end of that processing it was sent to another page,
>> pageRedir.php, via a header. In pageRedir.php I had it go immediately
>> via a header back to the original page. A refresh of that original page
>> then still resulted in another processing.
>>
>> Anyway, a refresh would still satisfy the isset for the submit button so
>> it would still be sent to another page. I don't see how this gains
>> anything.
>>
>
> That's because you didn't do it like I described. You must have a
> DIFFERENT page doing the processing. You can then redirect back to the
> original page, if you wish.

Got it! I wrote a little test pair and it worked just as you said. Thanks.

Shelly

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