How to prevent form resubmission when page is refreshed (F5 / CTRL+R)

Question

I have a simple form that submits text to my SQL table. The problem is that after the user submits the text, they can refresh the page and the data gets submitted again with

Answer 1

A refined version of Moob's post. Create a hash of the POST, save it as a session cookie, and compare hashes every session.

// Optionally Disable browser caching on "Back"
header( 'Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate' );
header( 'Expires: Sun, 1 Jan 2000 12:00:00 GMT' );
header( 'Last-Modified: ' . gmdate('D, d M Y H:i:s') . 'GMT' );

$post_hash = md5( json_encode( $_POST ) );

if( session_start() )
{
    $post_resubmitted = isset( $_SESSION[ 'post_hash' ] ) && $_SESSION[ 'post_hash' ] == $post_hash;
    $_SESSION[ 'post_hash' ] = $post_hash;
    session_write_close();
}
else
{
    $post_resubmitted = false;
}

if ( $post_resubmitted ) {
  // POST was resubmitted
}
else
{
  // POST was submitted normally
}