Auto Submission of Forms

Anon

Hi,

Is there any way to force an html form to be submitted (without user's clicking its submit button) in php? For instance if a user is taking a web based test and the time expires the test should be automatically submitted.

Shabbir

Anon

This might be possible with some java script. I know a form can be "submitted" with a submit control by putting an OnChange event in the input tag:

You should be able to create some javascript function that would call the form.submit() after a certain amount of time.

Disclaimer: I've never done this!

Anon

try using this to have a HTML page submit when it is loaded. There are a few ways to do what you want to do, this may spark some ideas:

Phil

willeaton

Just as a follow up to this if its useful to people in the future, I had the same problem as this but couldnt do a:

due to the fact that my headers were all in a seperate file. I used this method instead ...

Note that this needs to be outside of the <?php ?> tags or echo'd to work, also you need to remove the submit button from that form. When you add this after your form it will automatically send the form as if someone pressed submit.

Will
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