<?php
if(isset($_REQUEST['submit'])) {
//Do something here.
header('location:?');
exit;
}
?>
<html>
<body>
<form method='get'>
<input name='text'>
<input name='submit' type='submit'>
</form>
[web] header('location:?') in Safari?
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I often have pages that take querystring parameters, processes what the querystring commands, and then redirects to '?' (the current page with no query string) to prevent the Refresh button from causing the same thing to happen again.
Consider the following simplified code snippet. It's a GET form with a single text input and a submit button. A form like this would do some processing with the input (perhaps send an email), and redirect to the same page with that info cleared out of the querystring.
Quote:Original post by BeanDogOne method I use is to generate a random number on each page load. This number is stored in a hidden field on the form and also stored in a session variable. When the page is submitted, I check that the two match; if not I unset() the submit button's $_POST variable (effectively disabling it) before the form is drawn again. This way, hitting refresh is ineffective as by that time the session variable contains a new magic number.
And anyone have a suggestion on how to get around this without hard-coding the name of the script into the script itself?
However, this is probably a little over-complex for what you want; rather than hard-coding the page name use the predefined variable $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'].
What are you doing with the query string that you want to prevent from occurring again? If it's HTTP GET then you should be able to repeat the command without problems. If you're modifying something significant then you should be using POST or one of the other HTTP methods.
The HTTP Location header requires an absolute URI according to the specs. This means you're relying on a browser's own interpretation when you're passing a relative URI to Location. Just use absolute URI's and you'll be fine.
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Quote:Original post by Colin Jeanne
What are you doing with the query string that you want to prevent from occurring again? If it's HTTP GET then you should be able to repeat the command without problems. If you're modifying something significant then you should be using POST or one of the other HTTP methods.
I realize this. I rarely use GET to do something I wouldn't want repeated, but my same needs (not having Refresh do anything) apply for pages that take POST data. Redirecting to the current page with no GET/POST data meets that need.
Try:
Else go with benryves' suggestion and use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] or $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']. It shouldn't take you more than 3 lines of code to figure out the correct redirect location from REQUEST_URI. Just wrap it in a function and do a multifile search/replace on your existing header('location ...') calls.
header('location: ' . __FILE__);Else go with benryves' suggestion and use $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] or $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']. It shouldn't take you more than 3 lines of code to figure out the correct redirect location from REQUEST_URI. Just wrap it in a function and do a multifile search/replace on your existing header('location ...') calls.
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