REfresh problem

ranganathanp

I have a dynamically generated form in the php page. When i submit it works fine but when i refesh the page the mail sending functionality is getting fired again and i am receving the mail with the old values which are in the post variables which have been sent before. Can anybody suggest how we can track if the page is being refrshed or is it being submitted. or can we clear the post variables. or is there any function to check the post back in php.

regds.,
ranganathan p

sysera

Can you post the code for us to look at?

I would assume somewhere in the script you are doing some sort of if or isset check to see if a variable has been set by the HTML form being posted, THEN sending the e-mail.

Perhaps you need to unset this variable after the form has been e-mailed?

-Sys

bike5

use sessions, set a session variable if the form was submitted and check for that variable. If they refresh the varaible should be present already so then don't do that code or whatever.

sysera

Originally posted by bike5
use sessions, set a session variable if the form was submitted and check for that variable. If they refresh the varaible should be present already so then don't do that code or whatever.

Ooohh you trickster. Good suggestion. 🙂

ranganathanp

$form_flg = 0; 

if ($_POST['test'] == 1) { 
      $form_flg =1; 
} 

if ($form_flg == 1) { 
         $sendmail; 
         $savetodatabase; 
         $form_flg = 0; 
}

Here is the mail sending code. Here the flag maybe a hidden text field or a session. but when i first submit no problem but when i refresh the value will be set as you told but if the user wants to send another mail then the function will not be executed as the session or flag will be set..... any solution for this

thanks for the session idea

ranganathanp

hey guys solved the problem.

i posted the data to a separate file and then reloaded the source file using "header". right now i do not have problem with my functionality but is this the right way????????

thanks to all of you who have responded to my query.

lol.
ranganathan p