Displaying a status page while processing continues in background

[future_man]

Hello,

I have a long script that runs when a user submits a form that takes a while to process. The problem is that the user gets impatient and then resubmits the form multiple times.

Can anyone recommend a good way to handle this? ie. displaying a temporary status message, etc.?

Thanks,
John

[sarahk]

The typical scenario here is...

• submit form
• save variables into a session or temporary table
• show a progress page which meta refreshes to the script which will do the real work.
• now the query actually starts
• when the query has finished the real output is displayed

[sks1024]

Just disable the submit button using javascript once it is submitted.

use this code

put this is the head section of the page with the form.

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
function disablebutton() {
	document.form1.Submit.disabled = true;
	return true;
}
</script>

form1 above is the name of your form. You should change this to whatever your form name is.

add this to the form tag of the form

onsubmit="return disablebutton();

//example
<form action="/go.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" name="form1" onsubmit="return disablebutton();">

should grey out the submit button so it can only be pressed once.

[slak]

No need to disable. Just check to see if form has been submitted.

<script type="text/javascript">
function submitOnce(f)
{
   var r = f.submittedAlready;
   f.submittedAlready = true;
   return !r;
}
</script>
...
<form onsubmit="return submitOnce(this)">
...
</form>