[RESOLVED] has my form been submitted before

[NZ_Kiwis]

I have a form which when submitted sends a user to save.php and at the bottom of that it's got a

header("LOCATION: index.php);

on it which takes a user back to the form.

What I want to tell if a user has come from save.php or via my form direct!

<?php if (isset($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']) == "submit.php"){ ?>

does not seem to work as when i ecgo HTTP_REFERER I get index.php

how can I do this?

[Weedpacket]

If the request came from a form submission then there would presumably be form data with it, which wouldn't be there if the request came from a redirect.

[niroshan]

Hi NZ_Kiwis,

There are 2 solutions I can purpose to you.

Solution 1

Instead of posting to save.php file why dont you post it to the same file (index.php) and handdle the post data within the file. This way you dont need to redirect anywhere and also you can keep the post data in the fields if just in case user submitted wrong input.

Solution 2

Just in case if you want to keep the existing work flow as it is then why dont you use sessions. when user post data to save.php register a session and when you come back to index.php file check whether that session exists or not.

Hope this helps,

Best regards,
Niroshan