Deron, By doing a Post to itself, this form will cause an error everytime someone clicks the Back button on the browser (after the first post, of course).
What I do is have two forms, first invoked with a get via hot link or redirect. Form_1.php checks to see if variable $s has been passed (in the URL, of course), if not it initializes and displays the form. The Form action on this displayed form indicates to "Post" to Form_2.php. Form_2.php displays nothing, just processes variables on the form. This one would insert the row, and to avoid thread problems (multiple simultaneous inserts, from multiple users) has a unique "autoincrement" variable as the primary key to the table (MySQL will make the insert "thread safe"). When the insert is successful this routine redirects the browser back to form_1 like so; Header("Location: Form_1.php?s=$insertid"); Exit; When control is passed to Form_1.php again, this time the variable $s is set and the row is retrieved from the table (instead of using initialization values) and displayed in the form giving confirmation of the updates that were done. Because Form_2 redirects to Form_1, Form_1 is the only one on the browser history list(each separate instance is tracked, of course), and it is always entered via a Get, meaning that the browser does include the passed variable values in the history list (it doesn't do this with a Post). And the Back button works. In the Post error you are working toward, the browser complains that it does not have a record of the "Post" variable values (the Data Has Expired). There may be other ways to deal with this, but this is one way that I have found that works. Good Luck, Warren Vail -----Original Message----- From: Deron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 11:38 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PHP] "Talkback" or community type participation..... Hi there! I have this script I just made based on a tutorial I found online and was wondering if there was a better way to do this or not. Everything works great so far except for a couple little things. Once the $submit is clicked and runs the INSERT data into the table... I am looking to be able to have the page auto refresh and display the new entry as well as the form again. Here's my current code: (I have this built into the main review page via an include. The entire page can be viewed here: http://www.metalages.com/2002/reviews/reviews-test.php?band=Evergrey&album=I n%20Search%20of%20Truth Feel free to post a dummy message, nothing is live yet, all in test mode :) you'll notice once the entry is submitted also, if you try to refresh the page it wants to readd the data again. any help or guidance appreciated, I am a self professed "still learning this stuff"! kinda guy. <?php if ($submit) { // Process Form $DBconn = mysql_connect("localhost", "user", "pass"); mysql_select_db("databasename", $DBconn); if (!$DBconn) { echo( "<p>Unable to connect to the " . "database server at this time.</p>" ); exit(); } $sql = "INSERT INTO talkback (band_id, album_id, talkback_name,talkback_email,talkback_comments) VALUES ('$currentid[0]','$currentid[1]','$talkback_name','$talkback_email','$talkba ck_comments')"; $result = mysql_query($sql); echo "Thank you! Information entered.\n"; } else { // display form ?> <form method="post" action="<?php echo "$PHP_SELF" . "?band=$band" . "&album=$album"?>"> <div align="center"><b>Name/Nickname:</b><br> <input type="Text" name="talkback_name"><br> <b>Email (optional):</b><br> <input type="Text" name="talkback_email"><br> <b>Comments:</b><br> <textarea name="talkback_comments" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea> <br> <input type="Submit" name="submit" value="Speak Your Metal!"> </div> </form> <?php } // end if ?> Deron www.metalages.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]