Re: Re: header( 'refresh' ), form data, and IE

Thanks for the response Dan. Us Dans have to stick together :) On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 17:37 -0700, Dan wrote: > Then validate the field obviously! > $description = ""; > $categoryid = ""; > > if(isset($_POST['description'])) > $description = "?description=$_POST['description']"; > > if(isset($_POST['categoryid'])) > { > if($description != "") $categoryid = "&"; else $categoryid = > "?"; // if a > description has been entered you'll need an & symbol otherwise a ? > $category .= "categoryid=$_POST['categoryid']"; // append category to > itself with the posted info > } Hmmmm. Yeah I thought it would come to that. I was hoping for a quick & nasty fix. > I didn't test this it's just off the top of my head, also you should > sanitize the input before you do anythign with it really, but that's another > issue. Also this is really something that you should be doing with ajax > rather than having the page reloading, and passing variables back, etc. > This is the EXACT purpose that Ajax as made for, validation of info. Check > out XAJAX it's very simple to use but powerfull when you need it. I will try to make some time for investigating ajax. I'm mostly developing in Perl, and doing nice GUI stuff ( ie no web stuff - this is a once-off maintenance thing ), so I'll a little out of my comfort zone ... Thanks again for your help. -- Daniel Kasak IT Developer NUS Consulting Group Level 5, 77 Pacific Highway North Sydney, NSW, Australia 2060 T: (+61) 2 9922-7676 / F: (+61) 2 9922 7989 email: dkasak@nusconsulting.com.au website: http://www.nusconsulting.com.au