# Need help on refresh

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-on-refresh/222697>\
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**Created:** [April 16, 2007, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-on-refresh/222697 "2007-04-16T09:19:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![borrob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a87d85/32.png) [@borrob](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/borrob)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2007, 9:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/need-help-on-refresh/222697/1 "2007-04-16T09:19:57Z")

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Hello,

i’ve got a really nasty problem here.  
I saw there are some solutions here in the forum but i didn’t get anything to work properly.

This is my problem.

When i submit a page i use a form with some data in hidden fields:  
act=“insert”

this works fine. When the page is submitted it calls itself and sees the posted action and inserts a record in the database.

But now i pushed the refresh button. And it keeps inserting a record for every refresh.  
this is not what i want. I tried to set the action on the hidden field to “” but that doesn’t help.  
Setting the no-cache in the header didn’t help eather. Using a session var could be possible but i don’t understand how to do this.

any help would be greatly appreciated…  
thx in advance.