RE: [PHP] stopping repeated posts to a Bulletin Board

2002-09-17 Thread Jon Haworth
Hi, What is the best way to avoid the repeated comment/post syndrome caused by the user clicking the submit button one too many times The canonical way is to attach a token to the form (a random number will usually do) and insert that into the table along with the comment/post, after

Re: [PHP] stopping repeated posts to a Bulletin Board

2002-09-17 Thread John Wards
Use some javascritp to blank out the submit button when its clicked. is a quick and easyway. Also try storing the sent data in sessions and compairing any new data sent to the previous data. John Wards SportNetwork.net - Original Message - From: Resarch and Development [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [PHP] stopping repeated posts to a Bulletin Board

2002-09-17 Thread John Holmes
What is the best way to avoid the repeated comment/post syndrome caused by the user clicking the submit button one too many times because he/she did not wait for the browser to return a confirmation page or the script took too long to execute. Along with the other suggestions, You can use

Re: [PHP] stopping repeated posts to a Bulletin Board

2002-09-17 Thread Justin French
The page that actually validates the user input and inserts into the database shouldn't actually be a page that gets sent to the browser -- it should be a script with no output, which then redirects to a thanks page. That way there is no chance of the user hitting refresh and double posting...

Re: [PHP] stopping repeated posts to a Bulletin Board

2002-09-17 Thread Heilig (Cece) Szabolcs
On 2002. szeptember 17. 15:52, Resarch and Development wrote: What is the best way to avoid the repeated comment/post syndrome caused by the user clicking the submit button one too many times because he/she did not wait for the browser to return a confirmation page or the script took too long