Form x Back button x Sessions

canani

Hi.

I've a form with many fields(form.php) using class.FastTemplate (http://www.thewebmasters.net). When the user clicks [OK] to submit
it, another script is called to validate the fields (validate.php). If there's some wrong field, an
error message and a [BACK] button is displayed.

The [BACK] button hrefs to
"javascript:history.back(1)".
When the user clicks [BACK], the form is empty. The same happens if the user clicks the browser's back button.

I clicked 'view source -> save as -> form.html' in the browser. When I open this browser. The problem is gone.

When I remove the calls of session_start() from my PHP files, the problem is gone.

Is this problem related to the cookies session_start() uses?

Does anybody have any hint ?

Anon

Yes... with sessions its better to NOT have the browser go back.

canani

What about a old style (PHP3) session handling? Would I have the same problem ?

Anon

Never did PHP3 session handling ... I'm actually, at this very moment trying to figure out the best way to use session handling in PHP 4...

canani

After I commented out session_start() calls the form is working ok with the browser's back button.

I've put set_cookie() calls in the beginning of both files, ans it STILL works.

It seems to me that session_start() is bewitched !!! help !

canani

I\'ve found an answer!

http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=11618&edit=1