RE: [PHP] stopping repeated posts to a Bulletin Board
| From: | Jon Haworth | Date: | Tue, 17 Sep 2002 14:57:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP] stopping repeated posts to a Bulletin Board | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hi,
> What is the best way to avoid the "repeated comment/post"
> syndrome caused by the user clicking the submit button one
> too many times
The canonical way is to attach a token to the form (a random number will
usually do) and insert that into the table along with the comment/post,
after checking first to make sure that a row containing this token isn't
already in the table.
Cheers
Jon