Re: [PHP] Internet Explorer - BACK Button - Passwords?
At 14.04.2002 16:56, you wrote: Don't know if anyone can help me with this one: It's not directly a PHP question -- but maybe someone knows the fix? I have a form, when the user presses the submit button, I pass the form vars to my PHP checkform.php script -- which checks all the fields to make sure the user entered the correct values -- if the user missed something, then they are passed to my error page, which lists out the fields they need fix -- ideally, i would like them to press their browsers BACK button to return to the form, instead of reloading all their session data back into the form with a submit button on the error page -- too much data. So, in Netscape, when a user presses their BACK button all the fields are filled in just as they were filled in ... including the password field. However, in Internet Explorer, when the user presses their BACK button, all fields are good EXCEPT the password fields, which are bank ... so the user is forced to reenter their password info -- kinda annoying. Is there a HEADER or something or an IE fix anyone knows of that will force IE not to delete the password info in this manner? Maybe you should not rely on the browser, save the vars you got in a db or file. If there´s any mistake, send the form again with the data from db/file. (Wow IE has some security function that makes sense ;-) ) HTH Oliver -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
Re: [PHP] Internet Explorer - BACK Button - Passwords?
On Sunday, April 14, 2002, at 07:56 PM, Jason Caldwell wrote:
I have a form, when the user presses the submit button, I pass the form
vars
to my PHP checkform.php script -- which checks all the fields to make
sure
the user entered the correct values -- if the user missed something,
then
they are passed to my error page, which lists out the fields they need
fix -- ideally, i would like them to press their browsers BACK button to
return to the form, instead of reloading all their session data back
into
the form with a submit button on the error page -- too much data.
So, in Netscape, when a user presses their BACK button all the fields
are
filled in just as they were filled in ... including the password field.
However, in Internet Explorer, when the user presses their BACK button,
all
fields are good EXCEPT the password fields, which are bank ... so the
user
is forced to reenter their password info -- kinda annoying.
Is there a HEADER or something or an IE fix anyone knows of that will
force
IE not to delete the password info in this manner?
I get around this entire problem by not forcing the user to use their
BACK button if they've made a mistake at all.
The form itself is the return value of a function, called print_form()
or something like that. I have dozens of these functions in my pages,
btw. Anyway, one of the cool things about this is that I can re-use
this function as many times as I need to create this form. So if the
user fails the error-check or the input is invalid, or whatever, I just
execute the function again and the form is displayed.
How do I get the original values back? Well, each input in HTML has a
value attribute. That's the default value of the input, in the case
of text inputs then the value will be echoed in the text box, et
cetera. In listbox inputs you can use selected=yes so that the user's
choice is selected. I just put the user's input as the value of my
HTML form inputs. Here's an extremely simple example of such a function:
function print_simpleform()
{
$simple_form = form method=\post\ action= .
$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . \
input type=\text\ value=\ .
htmlentities($_POST['userinput']) . \ /
/form\n;
return $simple_form;
}
Of course, you can get far more complex and have functions that do this
but use database info as the default values, et cetera. Also, you may
need to stripslash() your $_POST data if you have gpc_magic_quotes =
on.
Erik
Erik Price
Web Developer Temp
Media Lab, H.H. Brown
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[PHP] Internet Explorer - BACK Button - Passwords?
Don't know if anyone can help me with this one: It's not directly a PHP question -- but maybe someone knows the fix? I have a form, when the user presses the submit button, I pass the form vars to my PHP checkform.php script -- which checks all the fields to make sure the user entered the correct values -- if the user missed something, then they are passed to my error page, which lists out the fields they need fix -- ideally, i would like them to press their browsers BACK button to return to the form, instead of reloading all their session data back into the form with a submit button on the error page -- too much data. So, in Netscape, when a user presses their BACK button all the fields are filled in just as they were filled in ... including the password field. However, in Internet Explorer, when the user presses their BACK button, all fields are good EXCEPT the password fields, which are bank ... so the user is forced to reenter their password info -- kinda annoying. Is there a HEADER or something or an IE fix anyone knows of that will force IE not to delete the password info in this manner? Thanks. Jason -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
