[Use category layouts that include the fix] Post-redirect-get pattern

Hello

you need to use -recent- v3.0.0+ (or late v2.x) flexicontent category layout of core templates (or a duplication of them)

any templates that do not follow the new-pattern
of course can not benefit from our fix

Test
- with flexicontent core templates
- make sure your page has no JS errors due to 3rd party plugin or due to custom code

Reviewing my old implementation I see that the problem happened on categories, items (both I haven´t checked yet, have yet to test them and try your approach) and the search, where I put it on com_flexicontent/search/default_form.php


You can check yourself on your own site search, I can´t reload the page without being asked to confirm the input

friendly bump

> You can check yourself on your own site search, I can´t reload the page without being asked to confirm the input

Reload / refresh page ? yes you will be asked by browser to confirm
- the above is normal, try clicking refresh in any website and you will be asked to confirm

"The page has expried" case
- when clicking, forward / backwards browser buttons in search / filtering form
is what is handled


> You can check yourself on your own site search, I can´t reload the page without being asked to confirm the input

I just tested it works "forward / backwards browser buttons" work as intended
no "Page has expired" message

But even if we have somewhere 1 or 2 non-updated old category layouts
- then it is these layouts that need updating

In short there is nothing to fix in our distrubution package

your old layouts do not have this new code
- you will need some custom dev work to update the layouts

I´ll focus my question in a different way:

why the search page, this one ( www.flexicontent.org/site-search.html?q=...a9f64af0c6bb8f9641c2 ), this form is made through a post method?

Joomla for example, use method get www.joomla.org/search.html?q=test
Google itself, uses method get

You never get there a "confirm resubmision"

It´s not about third party error, neither my template, because I´m using the ones from flexicontent

Hello

i used the URL that you gave, i change some form fields and submitted form

- then i click back,
and there was no message "Page has expired"

so it is working

you can change it to use get
and the form will still submit
but if you do, then you will a very long URL with ALL form fields

http://localhost/joomla3xxdev/?filter=&p=all&filter_170=&filter_2%5B1%5D=&filter_2%5B2%5D=&filter_3=&filter_5=&filter_4%5B1%5D=&filter_4%5B2%5D=&filter_10%5B0%5D=&filter_16=&filter_150%5B1%5D=&filter_150%5B2%5D=&filter_52=&filter_28%5B0%5D=&filter_30=&filter_148=&filter_32%5B0%5D=&filter_33=&filter_37%5B0%5D=&filter_44=&filter_81=&filter_88=&filter_116=&filter_140=&filter_15=&filter_158=&filter_160%5B1%5D=&filter_160%5B2%5D=&limit=5&filter_order=i.title&filter_order_Dir=ASC&option=com_flexicontent&view=category&task=&cid=19&layout=&letter=&listall=0