Hi Xavier
Are you also using the MVC component? I highly recommend you leave the
redirection of actions to the dispatcher and the form to do the
processing. I'm not a huge fan of creating sessions for form data
unless they really do need to be session-aware (like multi-page forms,
etc). You can get around the double-submission simply by utilising
HTTP requests.
public function enquiryAction()
{
$form = new My_Enquiry_Form();
// do stuff...
$request = $this->getRequest();
if ($request->isPost() && $form->isValid($request->getPost()) {
// do stuff with form values...
$this->_helper->redirector('thankyou');
}
$this->view->form = $form;
}
public function thankyouAction()
{
// Write out thankyou script
}
No javascript required :)
Great work with ZF 1.5 !!
By the way, i've started to experiment with Zend_Form and I find it
more intuitive than his counterpart (Pear Quickform) to me. But one
thing i would like to have in a near future, is the ability to
implement the Post-Redirect-Get pattern with Zend_Form.
Now, with Zend_Form you can POST to the same action or to another
one, but the problem arises when someone hits the "reload" button in
his browser, showing the nasty "Caution: you are about to send a
form again...bla bla..." message.
May be could be a good idea to implement a Session container and
save the form data into, using a special ID for each form. So, if
the action processing the form sees is not valid can make a
'redirect' and the Form Component can redraw the form with session
data, validation errors, etc....
Yes, i know it's not a major issue, but i hate the 'double submit'
message. Now i'm working with Ajax and encrypted tokens to avoid
double submits (accidental or not), but i don't want to rely always
on javascript.
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