note 104519 deleted from session.examples by danbrown

Note Submitter: briank at kappacs dot com ---- Chris, You can also use the "GET-after-submit" design pattern: # Perform your POST or GET form processing here header("Location: $next_page_url"); If the user reloads the page (either through a refresh or history navigation), it will be the $next_page_url that gets reloaded. I typically use a sequence that looks something like: # Process the form, then... App::notice("Thank you for your form submission."); $status = App::saveStatus(); header("Location: $next_page_url&status=$status"); exit(); App::notice (and App::error) are methods in a custom application object for recording responses to be presented to the user in a page template. App::saveStatus() moves all accumulated notice and error status into a time-indexed part of the session and returns the time index. When a status parameter appears in a request, my request dispatcher checks for a stored status message with the specified time index. If found, the content is moved from the session back into the application object. Thus, any form action is only performed once, and any associated response is only displayed once (the first time $next_page_url is loaded after the form is processed).