Re: Newbie question........................very silly

srinivasan ranganathan wrote: > > Hi > > I am a newbie and am making a phone book database manager. I am using PHP > 4.0 and MySQL. I have a HTML form called ins.html. It takes data and tries > to insert data using a PHP file called ins_done.php. > > My problem is, the user has to click 'BACK' after inserting each record. I > want to avoid this. Should I make a single file called ins.php which > initialises a flag varialbe and also inserts data and then check this flag > everytime? > > Please help.. > > Thanks in advance > Srinivasan, India. Srinivasan, You could just add a hpyerlink to the previous page after the record has been written... for exmaple if your ins.html page is at www.myserver.com/phonebook/ins.html and php script is at www.myserver.com/phonebook/ins.php then insert this Href into your code <a href="/phonebook/ins.html">Return to the previous page</a> You may need to alter the position depending on the php code.. if you can leave it outside the <?php ?> tags... Hope that helps... George -- george@laopdr.com Network Administrator Planet Online Vientiane, Lao PDR