Hi Max My comment on switching off javascript was just to warn you that there are users/browsers out there who have it switched off all the time so your script won't work for these users... Doing it all in PHP i.e. server side will avoid that problem.
>From what you have described I would start looking at using a database to store the comments - it'll make your life much easier. Rich -----Original Message----- From: Max Graham [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 28 November 2002 15:19 To: Rich Gray; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Redirect browser to another URL? The original issue was, I tried to have the single page to display any previous comments, and then a form to add comments. Then, once it was submitted, it would submit itself. The page was supposed to detect whether any new data had been submitted, by way of a hidden input in the form, and if so, would first write to the output file and then display the output file. It wasn't a text file in this case, it was actually an HTML snippet I would get the script to grab with the include() function. What I had to do, because I suspected there wasn't enough of a delay between writing/flushing/closing the file and including it (maybe it thought the include file was still locked from being written to), was split the file into two separate files. The first comments page shows the past comments and the submission form. The form submits to a separate file that writes to the include file and then displays the only displayed code in the page. In the header I have a refresh function, and in the body tag I have the onload handler set to trigger the refresh function. I just realized, though, the setTimeout may be redundant ... :P I'm still managing to learn slowly ... like most things I do, it's all self-taught, and you're right -- I haven't even touched SQL databases. My only familiarity with databases was with FoxPro before it became "Visual FoxPro" (ominous music here). And I haven't even toyed with turning off Javascript ... there are services I'll turn off, but javascript ... for all its resemblance to C++ with bipolarism, I have been tempted to turn it off, but it just somehow reminds me of that scene from the Indiana Jones movie where he's trying to weigh how much sand in the bag will equal the weight of the statue to avoid triggering the booby traps ... -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
