RE: [PHP] History & the back button

Hi Alan Have you tried using onunload so when the user tries to do anything it redirects them to where you want them to go ie. the first page. ps. if this works let me know, if not I'll try and have a look.. M@ > -----Original Message----- > From: Alan Lord [mailto:lord_alan@hotmail.com] > Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 01:58 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] History & the back button > > > Hi there, > > I realise that this isn't strictly to do with PHP but maybe PHP could > provide me with a workaround... > > I've got a site where tables of data (customer names etc) are > automatically > generated from MySQL using PHP and displayed along with hyperlinks which > reference an operation like "delete" or "add" or "update". (In > fact I copied > the idea from Ying Zang's article about building an on-line market store > called mymarket on PHPBuilder.com) > > So my links look something like this: > > <a > href="http://full-url?mode=del&name=customer">Customer</a> > > Now to my question. How do I stop a "back button" from re-using this link > after it has been done once already? > > I have tried the javascript: > [onclick window.location.replace="different url"] but when I do this, it > actually changes the url before it is sent back to PHP so the > action never > happens! > > Am I just being thick? I can write routines to test for > repetition but this > seems like a lot of effort which is likely to introduce more bugs than it > fixes... Or should I drop this method altogether and use forms > and buttons > instead? > > Any insights would be extremely welcome! > > Alan Lord > > Trainee PHP programmer ;-) > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at > http://www.hotmail.com > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >