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

From: Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2000 09:02:54 +0000
Subject: RE: [PHP] Credit card debiting and preventing the user from abort ing
Groups: php.general 
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> 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. You could use session variables to determine if the user already pressed the "buy it" button within a certain amount of time and present them a warning/error if the try to press it again within a limited period. > > 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 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net

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