Re: Re: Using a reentrant form

""Richard Lynch"" <ceo@l-i-e.com> wrote in message news:46589.216.230.84.67.1173911193.squirrel@www.l-i-e.com... > And if the user re-loads the page they just POSTed? Easy peasy. After a successful POST I perform a redirect, either to the same page or a different, which changes the POST into a GET. So if the user presses the "refresh" button it simply repeats the GET. -- Tony Marston http://www.tonymarston.net http://www.radicore.org > 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?