RE: [PHP] Credit card debiting and preventing the user from aborting

> However, the process of debiting a card takes around 20 seconds and our > previous attempts at online payment have proven that 50% of our > customers > press STOP, BACK or RELOAD during this 20-second period. This leads to > problems as sometimes the transaction is carried out, but no message is > displayed, hence the customer presses BUY again and then pays for > his or her > product twice. (We have had cases where exactly this has happened four > times in a row. As our software costs USD 1000.00 per licence, I am sure > you can imagine how annoyed this customer was when he got 4x USD > 1000.00 on > his credit card bill.) > > My questions is, (how) is it possible to continue executing my debiting > script and display the results in the customer's browser even if > he or she > presses STOP? You cant, your best option is to say on the button (Click Here to confirm order - after this point you cannot stop the transaction) or somthing similar then register ignore_user_abort() so that the transaction does not stop when they abort. James