Is this possible?

[Anon]

I have a form that submits back to itself (it's used to enter, change and delete user accounts from a website), and everything is working fine, except for one annoying item.

Once the form as been submitted and a user tries to manually refresh the form you get the dreaded 'This page cannot be refreshed without sending the data...'. I was wondering if there was a way to reset the submit values after I have done my processing upon submission.

I guess I could write some code to place a meta-tag to refresh the page back to the inital form, but that's kind of kludgie.

Does PHP have anyway to reset the form automatically? Or if not with PHP with some other method?

[Anon]

I guess the problem you have is the one I run into before.

If you set the page expired right away, you will get that message "This page cannot be refreshed without sending the data.".

But if you don't expire your page, you will need to automatically refresh it to get the new results of the page.

Try two ways. here is what i did in asp. set this page to not expire but when this page load, force it to refresh once. after it is refreshed, set the flag to already refreshed, so it will not loop refresh endless.

1)

<%

if session("myrefresh")<>1 then

	session("myrefresh")=1

%>

<script language=javascript>
<!--
document.location.reload(true);
//--></script>
<%

else
session("myrefresh")=0

end if

%>

2) i think a better way is passing the timestamp as a parameter to this page itself.
<form action="itself.html?time=<?php echo(time()); ?> so when the browser will think it is a different url everytime when you refer back to that page.

not sure it will help. it was a lot time ago i run into this issue.

hui