Posted by Matt on 01/02/08 20:11

On 29 Dec 2007, 00:30, "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorp...@cs.tut.fi> wrote:
> Scripsit Matt:
>
> > Am I right in thinking that this code doesn't work in Safari?
>
> "This code"? Please learn to post to Usenet. You're supposed to start
> the message by telling what you are referring to. You're supposed to
> post a URL if you have a specific page that you have a problem with.

Hi there. Thank you for your fairly rude response. I've been posting
on Usenet for quite a few years now, I think you simply misunderstood
me. When I said "this code", I meant a generic reference to the meta
refresh function in HTML which I assumed readers would be familiar
with. I wasn't trying to debug a specific line of code; I thought this
was obvious from my post. It was about a technique.


> > I've
> > just written a PHP script for posting comments which uses a meta
> > refresh to reload the page so the user can't hit Reload and duplicate
> > their comment.
>
> You're on a wrong track. Please don't try to write some discussion forum
> software before you have a fairly good idea of how the Web works.
> Instead, use existing software to set up a forum. Better still, join
> someone else's forum. There's no shortage of discussion forums that were
> born dead and remain dead.

Once again, I do not appreciate this tone. As it so happens, I'm using
an existing forum software (phpBB) to handle the process of posting
comments. I'm not writing a forum, but my site now has the ability to
utilise phpBB's forum functionality as an additional module to my own
self-written code. As far as I'm aware, it's as big of a Usenet faux
pas to start assuming about other people's problems and telling them
they're doing it wrong, as it is to ask for answers about code without
posting it.

> > I added a 'click here to continue' link underneath the
> > 'you will now be redirected' message, but this isn't ideal -
>
> It's a fairly good way to tell that the author of the page has no clue
> on creating discussion forums.
>

Oh really? You'd better inform the people from Invision, phpBB, YaBB,
et al.




@Richard: thank you for the useful response. I guess I'll have to bite
the bullet and do it that way.

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