Radio Buttons

bigrollerdave

ok i have this script

 <table width="25%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <form method="post" action="{BASE_URL}/rate.php" name="rate">
    <input type="hidden" name="user_id" value="{I}">
    <input type="hidden" name="page" value="index">
    <input type="hidden" name="submit_rating" value="">
    <tr> 
  <table width="400" border="0">
    <tr align="center" bgcolor="#DADADA"> 
      <td width="10%"><font size="2">1<br>
        <input name="submit_rating" type="radio" onClick="this.form.submit()" value="1">
        </font></td>
      <td width="10%"><font size="2">2<br>
        <input name="submit_rating" type="radio" onClick="this.form.submit()" value="2">
        </font></td>
      <td width="10%"><font size="2">3<br>
        <input name="submit_rating" type="radio" onClick="this.form.submit()" value="3">
        </font></td>
      <td width="10%"><font size="2">4<br>
        <input name="submit_rating" type="radio" onClick="this.form.submit()" value="4">
        </font></td>
      <td width="10%"><font size="2">5<br>
        <input name="submit_rating" type="radio" onClick="this.form.submit()" value="5">
        </font></td>
      <td width="10%"><font size="2">6<br>
        <input name="submit_rating" type="radio" onClick="this.form.submit()" value="6">
        </font></td>
      <td width="10%"><font size="2">7<br>
        <input name="submit_rating" type="radio" onClick="this.form.submit()" value="7">
        </font></td>
      <td width="10%"><font size="2">8<br>
        <input name="submit_rating" type="radio" onClick="this.form.submit()" value="8">
        </font></td>
      <td width="10%"><font size="2">9<br>
        <input name="submit_rating" type="radio" onClick="this.form.submit()" value="9">
        </font></td>
      <td width="10%"><font size="2">10<br>
        <input name="submit_rating" type="radio" onClick="this.form.submit()" value="10">
        </font></td>
    </tr>
  </table>

and it works fine i just was wondering after they click the radio button i want it to say "You voted this person (what ever they voted them) and i want the radio buttons to go away and i want it to block there ip so they wont be able to vote this person again

leatherback

So, what is the question?

by the way: You are setting up -in my opinion- a not very userfriendly- system of auto-submitting the form. If someone clicks the wrong radio, there is no option of correcting!?

If you are storing your data in a database, you can store the IP number in the database, and check against it next time the user visits. Remeber this is not foolproof: People often do not have have staitic IP-s, and may have more then one PC available. If this is not a problem, it would work.

bigrollerdave

Originally posted by leatherback
So, what is the question?

by the way: You are setting up -in my opinion- a not very userfriendly- system of auto-submitting the form. If someone clicks the wrong radio, there is no option of correcting!?

If you are storing your data in a database, you can store the IP number in the database, and check against it next time the user visits. Remeber this is not foolproof: People often do not have have staitic IP-s, and may have more then one PC available. If this is not a problem, it would work.

yea i know that they cant change it but its a rating site so i dont want them to be able to change it ...I know its not fullproof but thats the only way i can think of doing it other then logging it by users but i think that would be a lot harded to do

bigrollerdave

i just want it so users cant rerate eachother and get free votes if you know what i mean

bodzan

If you want to foolproof this form you can't use JavaScript to do anything if you need this form to work...

It can be shut down and then you wont have any submitions from that user... I know there are only like 3% of users that disable JS in their browsers but you should consider them as well...

All of this you ask can be achieved using JS but like I said it can be shut down and hence it won't work...

To use PHP... Well I don't know, but you should have a button to submit form and then do anything because if you don't the form can't be processed by PHP. Now you have JS taking care of submitting the form but when it is disbled no submition will take place...

Anyway, leatherback said it: some people (well from where I am almost all of us) have dynamic IP's adn athough it could be the best option you might and to use it along with cookies and similar stuff...

bigrollerdave

lol you guys would know better then me but if they clear there cookies they would be able to rate people again and its only a matter of time till they find that out and with the javascript most rating sites use javascript for there rating if the users have this disabled then i guess they cant vote people 🙂 but how would i go about this "after the users click on the 1-10 buttons it replaces the buttons with text"

bodzan

...check for the variable submit_rating like this

if(isset($_POST['submit_rating'])){
//show text
}
else{
//show buttons
}

and do all the other stuff you plan to prevent user from voting again (IP banning, Cookie banning and other stuff)...

I guess... 🙂