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

What Works For Me is :

if ( !refreshed()) {
   //Your Submit Here
        if (isset( $_GET['refresh'])) {
            setcookie("refresh",$_GET['refresh'], time() + (86400 * 5), "/");
        }

    }    
}


function refreshed()
{
    if (isset($_GET['refresh'])) {
        $token = $_GET['refresh'];
        if (isset($_COOKIE['refresh'])) {
            if ($_COOKIE['refresh'] != $token) {
                return false;
            } else {
                return true;
            }
        } else {
            return false;
        }
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}  


function createToken($length) {
    $characters = '0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
    $charactersLength = strlen($characters);
    $randomString = '';
    for ($i = 0; $i < $length; $i++) {
        $randomString .= $characters[rand(0, $charactersLength - 1)];
    }
    return $randomString;
}

?>

And in your Form