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[Anon]

Hello,
I am working with PHP4. In page1 I have a form just like "<form action="page2.php" method=post>...</form>"
page2 is used to add data to database,after submit the form ,I want to go backto page1 automatically.
Looking forward to your answers.

[Anon]

The best way to do it is on page two you will want to grab the HTTP_REFERER environment variable and then do a header redirect back.

header("location: ".getenv("HTTP_REFERER")."");

It gets a little confusing with all the ". in there for the php variables and such. A cleaner looking way would be to put the HTTP into a variable and PHP should be able to read that in the string line with no problems.

[Anon]

How about doing everything on page1.php. Use an if statement and a hidden variable, lets call it sent. When the page first comes up, $sent is not set. Then use something like:

if($sent) {

add the form info to your database

}

<form action="page1.php" method=post>
...
<input type=hidden name=sent value=1>
<input type=submit>
</form>

So when the form is first loaded, sql statement is ignored because $sent has not been set yet. When you submit the form, the sql statement is used because $sent now has a value, and the page is then reloaded.

Should work.

Jim

[Anon]

header("Location: $HTTP_REFERER");

You can see an example in action here:

http://yelvington.com/howtheme.php3

[Anon]

Kenny,

I like Jim's idea, but if you dont want to use HTTP_REFERER, then this is a little easy HTML code you can use that will redirect user to another page. Now all you have to do is write your query etc and at the bottom just pop in this code.

$refresh = "<meta http-equiv=\"Refresh\" content=\"1;url=./whatever.php3\">";
echo $refresh;