Re: [PHP] Re: back button and forms

GET method has restrictions -- you are only guaranteed proper handling
of the first 1024 (or some such limit) after which the behaviour is
considered undefined. Thus using the GET method is generally only
feasible for small forms.

Cheers,
Rob.


On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 14:08, rush wrote:
> "Tim Winters" <csnm@samplingtechnologies.com> wrote in message
> news:001101c36737$d3c32670$1401a8c0@TIMS...
> > Is there any way to avoid this from happening?
>
> instead of POST, you could use GET as form method.
>
> More nicely, but also much more work, is to use N layers on one page for
> each group of inputs and to switch layers by javascript. That way, all data
> will be posted as one big form, in single action. This would also solve
> nasty problem your solution has if user clicks on new window in the middle
> of forms and contionues to enter different data in both of windows, this is
> quiote likely to confuse dta you are storing to the session.
>
> rush
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