session and back

[Bob Bedford]

I'm planning to modify my site from "POST" to "SESSION"....Th is is because
many times, when clicking "back" on the browser, the page has to be
refreshed, and I absolutely want to avoid this, also I don't want to use
"GET" variables, as they are visible in the URL and I want to avoid this
(POST are also visible but not for everyone. session would be hidden)

If I use Session variables, will this fix the problem with "back" button ?
or may I have the same problem ?

Thanks for help.

Cheers.

Bob

[Theo]

Re: session and back

"Bob Bedford" <bedford1@YouKn owWhatToDoHereh otmail.com> wrote in
news:4176cc48$0 $28012$5402220f @news.sunrise.c h:
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> If I use Session variables, will this fix the problem with "back"
> button ? or may I have the same problem ?[/color]

page 1 could check for the existance of session variables, which wont be
there the first time around, so they will be blank. post to the second page
normally. put the post variables into sessions, named as you want them.
when going back to the first page, it will check for the existance of
sessions again, and they will be there.

Ive never used sessions directly in a form. actually I didnt know it could
be done.

[Tony Marston]

Re: session and back


"Theo" <invalid@noemai l.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9588942 5266FEdensnews1 23@216.168.3.44 ...[color=blue]
> "Bob Bedford" <bedford1@YouKn owWhatToDoHereh otmail.com> wrote in
> news:4176cc48$0 $28012$5402220f @news.sunrise.c h:
>[color=green]
>> If I use Session variables, will this fix the problem with "back"
>> button ? or may I have the same problem ?[/color]
>
> page 1 could check for the existance of session variables, which wont be
> there the first time around, so they will be blank. post to the second
> page
> normally. put the post variables into sessions, named as you want them.
> when going back to the first page, it will check for the existance of
> sessions again, and they will be there.
>
> Ive never used sessions directly in a form. actually I didnt know it could
> be done.[/color]

You cannot use sessions in a form, but you can use session data to create a
form. Session data exists on the server only, and what is sent to the client
browser is an HTML document which may contain values obtained from the
session data.

If you are having problems with the BACK button ten read

http://www.tonymarston.co.uk/php-mysql/backbuttonblues.html

--
Tony Marston

http://www.tonymarston.net

[Theo]

Re: session and back

"Tony Marston" <tony@NOSPAM.de mon.co.uk> wrote in
news:cl7i2d$8k5 $1$8302bc10@new s.demon.co.uk:
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> You cannot use sessions in a form, but you can use session data to
> create a form. Session data exists on the server only, and what is
> sent to the client browser is an HTML document which may contain
> values obtained from the session data.
>[/color]

thats what I thought, but there have been enough undocumented things to
make me go 'hmmmmm'.