[Resolved] Submit Button

NZ_Kiwis

I have a sign up form with data being sent to my SQL database. I have a problem in which is a user hits the submit button twice... I see some sites have a code which blocks the submit button.. how do i do this??

TheDefender

A little JavaScript... Check out this link at DynamicDrive.com for info. You can't do this with PHP, since PHP is a server-side language and is parsed before it's ever sent to the browser, so you need to use client-side scripting... That's where the JavaScipt comes in. (Be aware though, that your users could experience ill-effects, from trying to use a form scripted like this with their JavaScripting turned off on their browsers, so just be cautious.

Chadian22

not nessairly true. Usually the only reason you'd want someone to stop from double submitting is if the data was being saved, because then the data would be saved twice. Where do you save it, for most its mysql, so you could easily make it check the database to make sure none of the fields are exactly the same. If the name, comment field and etc are exactly the blog_id / picture_id then don't add it to the database.

TheDefender

Chadian22 wrote:
not nessairly true.

Uh, with all due respect, what part of what I said wasn't necessarily true? You know of a way to use PHP to disable the submit button? Yes, what you are saying is true. Good PHP error-checking will prevent a double post (99.9% of the time) but you can't disable the submit button on a click event using PHP. That is ENTIRELY true!

Chadian22

my bad , didn't read the block submit part at the end... the javascript isn't really needed though if you have the php , they can click the submit all day if they wished.

NZ_Kiwis

For some reason I keep getting blank rows.. .well with just the auto number generated but no other details