PHP Poll

[Anon]

Hi,
I have a poll on my site that uses PHP/MySQL.
I use a form for the input i.e <form action="poll.php"> which works fine.
However, if somebody types in the URL of 'poll.php', i.e www.mydomain.com/poll.php, it registers a vote!

I would like to be able to display a message saying "Sorry, you have not voted" if the user did not access this page by filling out the form.

How could I do this??

Thanks very much

[cordex]

While it's not foolproof, but if you check for variables created in the form (and dumping anyone who hasn't created those variables to a "sorry, you lose" page), you can avoid people merely accessing poll.php and logging a vote.

[Anon]

Ben,

Thanks very much - I can't believe I never thought of that!

Kenny