Re: adding "Back to Search results" link

Lets just say that option wouldn't be a great moment in design history "Bastien Koert" <bastien_k@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:BAY135-W31D241C2024788259C5B849DDE0@phx.gbl... 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 15:44:46 -0500> Subject: Re: [PHP] adding "Back to Search results" link> > Jim and Brad.> > Thanks for the feedback. I was thinking it was something simple like a back > button. But the problem that arises when I use this method is on Form 3.> > If I go through the steps, and make a change to an item on Form 3. Then use > the <a href="javascript:history.go(-2);">Return to search > results</a>.....everything works fine.> But if I dont make any changes to Form 3. then this takes me all the way > back to the search page.> > People in my group use this form to update database information for a number > of items. Once they make changes, they would like to go back to the search > results, instead of having to run the same search again and again.> > > > > "Jim Lucas" <lists@cmsws.com> wrote in message > news:46C361B8.8040604@cmsws.com...> > Derek Moon wrote:> >> I am trying to imporve a web application that my group uses.> >>> >> Basically there are 3 forms that work together Form 1 > form 2> >>> >> Form 1 - searchs for enterend values> >> Form 2 - returns search results, letting you individually select any item> >> Form 3 - lets you edit a specific individual item> >>> >> I want to make a link on the Form 3 that returns you to form Form 2> >> basically a "Back to Search results" link.> >>> >> I'm thinking that there is a way to pass the query string, but I am a > >> newbie and I'm not sure that I am going about this the right way.> >>> >> Anyone have any advice or knowledge to share?> >> > I would personally just use the back button. Isn't that what it is there > > for?> >> > But seriously, if you changed the method on Form 1 to use get instead of > > post, you could then just have a button that sends you back 1 in your > > history, or 2 in this case.> > ...> > ...> >> > Actually wait, it would be 3> >> > form 1 -> results -> edit -> save changes ->\> > \------------------------------/> >> > hope the format is correct on my ascii art :)> >> > nope, now that I read it again, it is only 2 back in the history> >> > So something like this for the back button> >> > <a href="javascript:history.go(-2);">Return to search results</a>> >> > That should do> >> > GUIDE LINES FOR USE OF METHOD in forms> > POST Only use post when you are submitting a form> > that will change the data that you are submitting> >> > GET Use this for forms that do not change get, but> > only retrieve data.> >> >> >> > -- > > Jim Lucas> >> > "Some men are born to greatness, some achieve greatness,> > and some have greatness thrust upon them."> >> > Twelfth Night, Act II, Scene V> > by William Shakespeare > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)> To unsubscribe, visit: 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