Reset Form

[SanderK]

Hi Guys

I created a form with a textfield and a submit button. When I click the submit button the text in textfield is added to table. How can I after that reset the textfield back to empty??? It still contains the value which was added. I even tried with setdefaults which doesn't work???

[mark]

There is a hack that clears the form, but the clean solution is to make a header('Location: http://www.example.com/your/script.php'); redirect to the page that contains the form. This also ensures (better: tries to ensure) that the data isn't submitted twice.

[SanderK]

Thx...the location was also my solution for the moment. But I don't like it so much because I want to send the state like 'Record saved' etc.. And to pass this through request seems to me pretty lame.

[mark]

Actually I wouldn't call it lame. In case of an error (either from form validation or e.g. because the database server isn't reachable), you wouldn't redirect, but show a message directly above the form. If you redirect only on success, you have only two cases: initial visit or the form was (successfully) submitted. I wouldn't use a parameter like "?msg=success", but maybe something short like "?s=1" (s for "submitted").

If you still don't like this approach, then use the hack:

[SanderK]

I'm going to try that hack. That will probably solve my problem. I actually do it like "?msg=1" at the moment. But I still think it is lame because you can actually go to the page and display a message without doing something.

Thanks for your help.