Getting back to 'Ask a Question' suggestion screen

[juser]

Hi,

A user asks a question and is presented with similar FAQs, then they click on one of them. If that FAQ does not satisfy them, how do they go back to try the other suggestions? If they use the back button, the browser complains because it's re-submitting the 'Ask Question' form. The user must refresh the page. Also, if the captcha is enabled, the refresh does not work. You can test this problem at http://faq.phpmyfaq.de/ . You can't go back to the suggestions.

I'm trying to get the 'Ask Question' form to submit as a get instead of a post, but the better solution may be a button they can select to re-submit and view the suggestions again.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Joe

[juser]

Here's the temporary "adjustment" I made to allow users to go back to the list of suggestions when using "Ask Question".

In template\ask.tpl I changed the form's method attribute from post to get. Then I added a hidden field <input name="action" type="hidden" value="savequestion" /> because it was submitting without it.

Next, I changed savequestion.php in the root directory and made all these INPUT_GET vs. INPUT_POST. Note: we have captcha disabled, but I changed that anyway.

$username = PMF_Filter::filterInput(INPUT_GET, 'username', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);
$usermail = PMF_Filter::filterInput(INPUT_GET, 'usermail', FILTER_VALIDATE_EMAIL);
$usercat = PMF_Filter::filterInput(INPUT_GET, 'rubrik', FILTER_VALIDATE_INT);
$content = PMF_Filter::filterInput(INPUT_GET, 'content', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRIPPED);
$code = PMF_Filter::filterInput(INPUT_GET, 'captcha', FILTER_SANITIZE_STRING);

Everything seems to work, but I do realize this is probably NOT the best way to handle it.

Thanks,
Joe

[Thorsten]

Hi,

our plan is to change the whole form behaviour of phpMyFAQ in the next big release.

bye
Thorsten