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Re: multi-page form [message #174720 is a reply to message #174717]

Wed, 29 June 2011 15:09

Jerry Stuckle
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On 6/29/2011 9:10 AM, Jeff North wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:59:12 -0400, in comp.lang.php Jerry Stuckle
> <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net>
> <iuf42j$m2e$1(at)dont-email(dot)me> wrote:
>
>> | On 6/29/2011 12:52 AM, Jeff North wrote:
>> |> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:21:40 -0400, in comp.lang.php Jerry Stuckle
>> |> <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net>
>> |> <iudr6o$263$1(at)dont-email(dot)me> wrote:
>> |>
>> |>> | On 6/28/2011 7:30 PM, Jeff North wrote:
>> |>> |> On Tue, 28 Jun 2011 18:58:42 -0400, in comp.lang.php Jerry Stuckle
>> |>> |> <jstucklex(at)attglobal(dot)net>
>> |>> |> <iudmb4$168$1(at)dont-email(dot)me> wrote:
>> |>> |>
>> |>> |>> | On 6/28/2011 3:46 PM, Bill B wrote:
>> |>> |>> |> On 6/28/2011 3:02 PM, Jerry Stuckle wrote:
>> |>> |>> |>> On 6/28/2011 2:00 PM, Bill B wrote:
>> |>> |>> |>>> On 6/28/2011 12:13 PM, William Gill wrote:
>> |>> |>> |>>>> Don't know what I was really expecting to find. Guess I'll just go the
>> |>> |>> |>>>> ECMA script (JavaScript); XMLHttpRequest and session variable route.
>> |>> |>> |>>>
>> |>> |>> |>>> If the issue is users pressing the back button to look at previously
>> |>> |>> |>>> entered data, revisit the idea of providing the cumulative information
>> |>> |>> |>>> that has been entered, thus taking away the need to go back. Once
>> |>> |>> |>>> posted, the data can be placed in session variables and will follow the
>> |>> |>> |>>> user as s/he goes from page/form to page/form. This eliminates the need
>> |>> |>> |>>> for a complex coding solution.
>> |>> |>> |>>>
>> |>> |>> |>>> Bill B
>> |>> |>> |>>>
>> |>> |>> |>>>
>> |>> |>> |>>
>> |>> |>> |>> Saving the data in the $_SESSION array and displaying it if it exists
>> |>> |>> |>> isn't really a "complex coding solution". Plus the user can then go back
>> |>> |>> |>> and change a response if necessary.
>> |>> |>> |>
>> |>> |>> |> Would you not be inclined to offer the user a submit button to give some
>> |>> |>> |> control over going backwards rather than force the user to use the
>> |>> |>> |> browser back button?
>> |>> |>> |>
>> |>> |>> |> Bill
>> |>> |>> |
>> |>> |>> | Users are already familiar with the operation of the back button. Why
>> |>> |>> | force them to change to something abnormal? And even if you do, they'll
>> |>> |>> | still press the back button...
>> |>> |>> |
>> |>> |>> | Of course, you can effectively disable the back button - at the risk of
>> |>> |>> | needlessly aggravating your users.
>> |>> |>
>> |>> |> No you can't disable the back button!!!!!
>> |>> |> http://www.jibbering.com/faq/#disableBackButton
>> |>> |
>> |>> | Actually, it's quite easy to effectively disable the back button. I do
>> |>> | it quite regularly for pages where I don't want the user to be able to
>> |>> | go back - like payment processing confirmation. And no client-side
>> |>> | programming such as javascript required.
>> |>
>> |> Enlighten me. How do you disable the back button without using
>> |> JavaScript?
>> |
>> | By using the Location: header call to redirect the browser to the new page.
>
> You still haven't disabled the browsers back button.

Yup. Try it. It doesn't work.

And I did say "effectively disable" - which is what this does.

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		multi-page form By: William Gill on Mon, 27 June 2011 16:40
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Mon, 27 June 2011 17:31
		Re: multi-page form By: William Gill on Mon, 27 June 2011 17:41
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Mon, 27 June 2011 18:24
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 27 June 2011 21:32
		Re: multi-page form By: William Gill on Mon, 27 June 2011 22:01
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Mon, 27 June 2011 22:18
		Re: multi-page form By: Graham Hobbs on Wed, 06 July 2011 00:06
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Mon, 27 June 2011 22:54
		Re: multi-page form By: William Gill on Tue, 28 June 2011 08:22
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 28 June 2011 10:53
		Re: multi-page form By: William Gill on Tue, 28 June 2011 16:13
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Tue, 28 June 2011 18:00
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 28 June 2011 19:02
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Tue, 28 June 2011 19:06
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Tue, 28 June 2011 19:46
		Re: multi-page form By: William Gill on Tue, 28 June 2011 20:05
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Tue, 28 June 2011 20:12
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Tue, 28 June 2011 20:20
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Tue, 28 June 2011 22:58
		Re: multi-page form By: Jeff North on Tue, 28 June 2011 23:30
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 00:21
		Re: multi-page form By: Jeff North on Wed, 29 June 2011 04:52
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 11:59
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Wed, 29 June 2011 12:09
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 12:41
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Wed, 29 June 2011 12:48
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 15:08
		Re: multi-page form By: me on Wed, 29 June 2011 16:27
		Re: multi-page form By: Jeff North on Wed, 29 June 2011 13:10
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 15:09
		Re: multi-page form By: Michael Fesser on Wed, 29 June 2011 16:56
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 19:32
		Re: multi-page form By: Peter H. Coffin on Tue, 28 June 2011 18:57
		Re: multi-page form By: Jeff North on Tue, 28 June 2011 22:46
		Re: multi-page form By: William Gill on Tue, 28 June 2011 23:29
		Re: multi-page form By: Jeff North on Wed, 29 June 2011 05:15
		Re: multi-page form By: Jerry Stuckle on Wed, 29 June 2011 12:01
		Re: multi-page form By: Michael Fesser on Wed, 29 June 2011 17:00
		Re: multi-page form By: Michael Fesser on Wed, 29 June 2011 17:05
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