RE: [PHP] stopping repeated posts to a Bulletin Board

From: Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2002 15:19:30 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP] stopping repeated posts to a Bulletin Board
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> What is the best way to avoid the "repeated comment/post" syndrome > caused by the user clicking the submit button one too many times > because he/she did not wait for the browser to return a confirmation > page or the script took too long to execute. Along with the other suggestions, You can use a processing page that doesn't output anything and just does the insert and then redirects to a "success" page. Then, if they hit refresh, then it will only refresh the "success" page, not the processing page. You can also restrict the user to only posting once every XX seconds. ---John Holmes...

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