Disabling The Refresh Button

[Pavel_Nedved]

Hi,

I want to stop people from refreshing on a certain page. How do I disable the "refresh" button & "view > refresh" using javascript.

Thanks very much.

Pavel

[JRMillion]

i dont think you can. especially since browsers have refresh on top anyway...

plus if there was a way of prevent reloading of a page, it would probably need to be done with server-side script.

why do you want to disable it?

[Pavel_Nedved]

I'll just describe the page for you.

It's a php page that first runs a mail script, then depending whether or not the email gets sent, a success page shows up to confirm it using the include() function.

I suppose if you can't disable "refresh", then what I'll have to do instead is change the confirmation page from an include to a redirect. Having said that, if the person was then to hit "back", I'd probably run into the same problem.

Having said THAT, I know that in PHP, we can detect what page was previously viewed, and if it is the success page, I can stop the script from executing.

Now, that's a lot of work, so here's my new question. Can I detect if the page has been refreshed using PHP? If so, I can insert just one or two lines of code, rather than about 50 (the confirmation page is a bit complicated).

[JRMillion]

i woulod just have one page do the actual mail(), and then pass the user to a different confirmation page using header("location:..."). then pressing refresh would not matter.

[stymiee]

JavaScript cannot control the browser that way. James' suggestion is your best bet. Just redirect them away from the page to prevent them from refreshing it again.

[Pavel_Nedved]

Cheers for your help guys. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.