[FX.php List] Persistent (outdated) Data Disply

[Jonathan Schwartz]

Thanks Derrick.

The header() is working great.

Jonathan

At 8:53 AM -0500 8/1/06, Derrick Fogle wrote:
>Your problem has already been solved using PHP's header() function, 
>but I thought I should answer this question anyway, just to expose 
>how moronic my coding was a few years ago...
>
>I just picked a 'throwaway' character (the 'u') to use as a name for 
>the timestamp value; then all my hyperlinks had something like this:
>
><a href="blahblah.php?act=view&rid=12345&u=<?= mktime() ?>">Hyperlink Text</a>
>
>... and all my forms had this:
>
><input type="hidden" name="u" value="<?= mktime() ?>">
>
>My actual implementation of this was a little more sophisticated 
>than what you see here - I was using the script to collect and then 
>generate all the name/value pairs dynamically, and then outputting 
>the whole name/value pair string in the URL, so the structure was 
>always correct no matter what. This worked for pretty much every 
>browser, because they all realized it was always a "new" URL, so it 
>never pulled anything from cache. Pretty dorky compared to using 
>header() functions, eh?
>
>On Jul 31, 2006, at 2:00 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>
>>Hmmm. How is that done?
>>
>>
>>At 1:23 PM -0500 7/31/06, Derrick Fogle wrote:
>>>At one point, I ended up always attaching a timestamp generated at 
>>>page load to any URLs or post data
>>>
>>>On Jul 31, 2006, at 1:16 PM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>>>
>>>>I am wrestling with the problem of Safari not reporting the 
>>>>correct recently update current values that exist in FMP.
>
>
>Derrick Fogle
>derrick at fogles.net
>
>
>
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