Re: stopping back button

This may not work 100% since browsers might display a locally cached version of the previous page. One possible preventative measure would be to open the application in a new browser window without the toolbar buttons. Jeff Demel wrote: > > To tell you the truth, you shouldn't disable the back button even if you > could, which I'm not sure you can. Try using session vars, cookies, or > something like that for checking where your user is in the process and > directing them to the correct form. > > HTH > > -Jeff > > -----Original Message----- > From: Road Runner [mailto:davisr004@hawaii.rr.com] > Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 4:10 AM > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] stopping back button > > I have a script that has several forms that return to the same file with > PHP_SELF How can I keep users from using the back button and re-entering > data into a form that they have already used once? > > thanks in advance, > > rodney > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net -- Monte Ohrt <monte@ispi.net> http://www.ispi.net/