RE: [PHP] adding "Back to Search results" link

what about hadding the search form elements to the results page and letting the users search right from there bastien> To: php-general@lists.php.net> From: dmoon3@depaul.edu> Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 bastien> 15:44:46 -0500> Subject: Re: [PHP] adding "Back to Search results" link> > Jim bastien> and Brad.> > Thanks for the feedback. I was thinking it was something simple like a back > bastien> button. But the problem that arises when I use this method is on Form 3.> > If I go through bastien> the steps, and make a change to an item on Form 3. Then use > the <a bastien> href="javascript:history.go(-2);">Return to search > bastien> results</a>.....everything works fine.> But if I dont make any changes to Form 3. then this bastien> takes me all the way > back to the search page.> > People in my group use this form to bastien> update database information for a number > of items. Once they make changes, they would like to bastien> go back to the search > results, instead of having to run the same search again and again.> bastien> > > > > "Jim Lucas" <lists@cmsws.com> wrote in message > bastien> news:46C361B8.8040604@cmsws.com...> > Derek Moon wrote:> bastien> >> I am trying to imporve a web application that my group uses.> >>> >> bastien> Basically there are 3 forms that work together Form 1 > form 2> >>> >> Form 1 - bastien> searchs for enterend values> >> Form 2 - returns search results, letting you individually bastien> select any item> >> Form 3 - lets you edit a specific individual item> >>> bastien> >> I want to make a link on the Form 3 that returns you to form Form 2> >> basically bastien> a "Back to Search results" link.> >>> >> I'm thinking that there is bastien> a way to pass the query string, but I am a > >> newbie and I'm not sure that I am bastien> going about this the right way.> >>> >> Anyone have any advice or knowledge to bastien> share?> >> > I would personally just use the back button. Isn't that what it is bastien> there > > for?> >> > But seriously, if you changed the method on Form 1 to use get bastien> instead of > > post, you could then just have a button that sends you back 1 in your > > bastien> history, or 2 in this case.> > ...> > ...> >> > Actually wait, it would be bastien> 3> >> > form 1 -> results -> edit -> save changes ->\> > bastien> \------------------------------/> >> > hope the format is correct on my ascii art :)> bastien> >> > nope, now that I read it again, it is only 2 back in the history> >> > So bastien> something like this for the back button> >> > <a bastien> href="javascript:history.go(-2);">Return to search results</a>> >> > bastien> That should do> >> > GUIDE LINES FOR USE OF METHOD in forms> > POST Only use post bastien> when you are submitting a form> > that will change the data that you are submitting> bastien> >> > GET Use this for forms that do not change get, but> > only retrieve data.> bastien> >> >> >> > -- > > Jim Lucas> >> > "Some men are born to bastien> greatness, some achieve greatness,> > and some have greatness thrust upon them."> bastien> >> > Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V> > by William Shakespeare > > -- > PHP bastien> General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)> To unsubscribe, visit: bastien> http://www.php.net/unsub.php> _________________________________________________________________ Connect to the next generation of MSN Messenger  http://imagine-msn.com/messenger/launch80/default.aspx?locale=en-us&source=wlmailtagline