Posted by J.O. Aho on 10/07/76 11:32

Stefan Mueller wrote:
> After the user presses the submit button I calculate with a PHP script some
> random numbers, read the submitted data and generate the new page.
> Everything works fine. However, if the user reloads this page my PHP scripts
> calculates again some different random numbers, reads the same data as
> before and generates the page again. I really don't like that because then
> the user gets new random numbers.
> I thought I could save the first random numbers to my second frame (hidden
> text box) and if the user reloads the page my PHP script could use these
> saved random numbers.
>
> But how can I read these numbers from my second frame with my PHP script?
> Is that possible or how can I determine if my page has already been loaded
> once?

You don't, use cookies or sessions

www.php.net/manual/en/function.setcookie.php
www.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php


//Aho

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