Submit Counter?

Manat

Hello all,

I have a form, I want to know how many times people have clicked submit, there is validation done on the page, so sometimes a submit says u must enter this field, that submit click must not be counted. After successful submit all form data goes to a parsing page which I have no access to.

I want to track how many times people have succesfully submited, should I go to a intermediary page that increments a counter in the db, then sends all info to the parsing page?

If so, how would I send all data to the parsing page? I have to send all data by the POST method.

What would be the best way to do this?

Thanks a bunch.
Manat

Phodetheus

You could use an intermediate page and place all the passed data into hidden input fields with a lone submit button.

If you then do a onload="submit()" in the body tag this will push your data straight on.

Phodetheus

I came, I saw, I coded

Manat

Hi,

Ok, it work, the only thing is how would I make this submit a server side submit?

I didn't put a body onload submit, because I put the form tag in the body tag, so it would try to submit before the form loaded.

Anyhow, I put a javascript submit();, but can I make this a server side submit? Because I want the I.P address of the sender to be my own production server, that way the end parsing file can only accept data coming from my prod. server I.P.

How can this be done?

Thanks

Phodetheus

I don't think a server side submit is possible. if you want to check where the data is comming from check the $SERVER['SERVER_ADDR'] or the $SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'] vars.

Manat

Hi,

Well, I don't want the check the IP, I just want it to be mine from my prod server.

If this was ASP.NET I could just use a server side submit, but i'm sure PHP must have some type of workaroud for this.

A form is client side, perhaps I shouldn't be sending the data via a client side mechanism, any ideas?

Thanks

Phodetheus

No sorry don't think this is possible. Maybe someone else here knows different.

Manat

Anyone?