redirect problem

[Anon]

Hi,
In a form submit page, I have a database operation. Once the database operation is completed, I do a header() to redirect user to another page. However, the reference of the browser is still on that form submit page, so when the use clicks "Refresh", it is execute the same DB operation that had already been executed. This is exactly what I don't want it to do.

Could anyone tell me how I can solve this problem?
Thanks,
Anne

[mistcat]

instead of doing a header to a new page, you could write out some javascript to change the url to a new page.. I'm wondering whats going on with your header though, as my experience with redirects has been that they change the url string in the users browser...

[Anon]

Hi,
The redirect I used is
header("Location: /admin/viewCustomerDetail.php?cid=$cid");

However, it does not change the browser URL.
I an using
Win98
Apache
PHP4
IE 4.5

Any idea?

Thanks,
Anne