Re: Re: Using a reentrant form

And if the user re-loads the page they just POSTed? On Wed, March 14, 2007 10:24 am, Tony Marston wrote: > I honestly don't know why people use the approach of having a hidden > field > on a re-entrant form to indicate whether it should be validated or > not. I > have used re-entrant forms for years without such a thing. How? Quite > simply > there are two phases to a form - GET, which requests a form from the > server, > and POST, which sends a form to the server. It is therefore quite > obvious > that I validate on every POST. Simple, isn't it? > > -- > Tony Marston > http://www.tonymarston.net > http://www.radicore.org > > "Todd Cary" <todd@aristesoftware.com> wrote in message > news:D9.28.12809.EE0C6F54@pb1.pair.com... >> To validate a page, I set the form value to the page name the user >> is on. >> Then there is a hidden variable, "looped" that is set to "1". By >> checking >> "looped", I know if the user has re-entered the form so I can do my >> validation checks. >> >> Is there a disadvantage to this approach? >> >> Thank you... > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- Some people have a "gift" link here. Know what I want? I want you to buy a CD from some starving artist. http://cdbaby.com/browse/from/lynch Yeah, I get a buck. So?