RE: [PHP] Refresh-avoidance

From: Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2000 21:01:55 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP] Refresh-avoidance
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> If you are using a database without many features (mysql), then it > should be just as easy (although maybe a bit more tedious) to > implement this check into your code. Basically, before every INSERT, > you could first do a SELECT to see if the same data exists. There are > many different ways to do it (such as even setting a cookie or session > variable that flags that the user has already updated), so you can > choose whatever works best in your case. you could also look into "REPLACE INTO"... if that lends itself to your application, this way if a record is being written twice, you could make it so it only writes to the same record again. dig?

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