Page resubmitting problem

[sangharsha]

I have a series of pages that contain forms and each page submits data to the next one. But in the middle of the process, when the user clicks "Back" button, it displays "Warningage has expired" message. and I need to refresh the page. is there any idea how to resubmit the page or any other suggestions.

[ultk]

One way to do it is to use GET instead of POST.

Another way is to use sessions and redirect the user after the post. Actually this might prevent them from clicking back. Either way the user really shouldn't be doing it.

If you do use sessions properly. ie putting all the POSTed info in a session then coding a back or previous button would be much easier.

I did a quick search on google which you should try too and came up with this:

header("Cache-control: private");

Put it at the top of each PHP page before output and see what it does.

[Dangermouse]

This might help: http://shiflett.org/articles/guru-speak-nov2004

[sangharsha]

Hey this code worked out. It seems to have solved the problem, please tell me if there are any side effects from this.

header("Cache-control: private");

Thanks again.

One way to do it is to use GET instead of POST.

[Dr Livingston]

What I do is the page that responds to the form submission, the page in the forms 'action' for a better description, puts $_POST to a session variable and redirects to another page where I validate the form data, insert/update to database, etc etc

This way you'll not get the refresh problem, but the current script I have is messy, too embarrassed to post an example

[seanf]

Moved to a more appropriate forum. See Where should I post my thread? for details

Sean