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titaniumdecoy · Aug 15th, 2007, 10:06 PM

To answer your question, you can use the unset function. Whether the data will be automatically resubmitted when the page is refreshed is browser-depended; in my browser (Safari on Mac OS X) it is not.

Your form should have an action attribute; you can set it to the name of the current page to replicate the current behavior:

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<form method="post" action="filename.php" name="nameform">

Note that your form should also have a name attribute ("nameform" in the example above) to facilitate scripting.

Also note that the <font> tag is deprecated (use <div> or <span> instead). Additionally, you should close all tags, even those that do not require separate closing tags; for example:

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<input type="submit" value="submit" />

Finally, you should check whether the form has been submit before printing a failure or success message by using the isset function; similarly, you may not want to display the form if the name is successfully found in the "database".

Aug 15th, 2007, 10:06 PM	#4
titaniumdecoy Expert Programmer Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 856 Rep Power: 3	To answer your question, you can use the unset function. Whether the data will be automatically resubmitted when the page is refreshed is browser-depended; in my browser (Safari on Mac OS X) it is not. Your form should have an action attribute; you can set it to the name of the current page to replicate the current behavior: (Toggle Plain Text) <form method="post" action="filename.php" name="nameform"> <form method="post" action="filename.php" name="nameform"> Note that your form should also have a name attribute ("nameform" in the example above) to facilitate scripting. Also note that the <font> tag is deprecated (use <div> or <span> instead). Additionally, you should close all tags, even those that do not require separate closing tags; for example: (Toggle Plain Text) <input type="submit" value="submit" /> <input type="submit" value="submit" /> Finally, you should check whether the form has been submit before printing a failure or success message by using the isset function; similarly, you may not want to display the form if the name is successfully found in the "database". Last edited by titaniumdecoy; Aug 15th, 2007 at 10:27 PM.