UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 6 V5.php Modifications V5.php Mod Ideas Single Submit Click

I've seen other BB software where once you have clicked the submit button it is then disabled to cut down on double posts. Just thought this would be good for those who have slower boards combined with impatient people. []/forum/images/icons/rolleyes.gif[/]

The double posts won't get entered if they are using the submit button... the post has to be different, or else it will pick it up and not allow a second post.

I think the requested result is to keep them from sending information to the server a second time to keep the server load down. Although the duplicate post isn't entered it did use up some server time to figure that out.

This is rough but this is what I think would be needed:

Add this to the header insert include -

<script language=javascript>
var subonce = 1;
function doSub () {

if (subonce) {
subonce = 0;
document.replier.submit();
}
else {
alert('Please be patient... Thanks.');
return false;
}

}
</script>


Then replace your submit button type which should be labled "submit" with "button" and then add this to the same tag:

onClick="doSub()"



I think that should do it. I would have to actualy do it to see if it works though... lol I think it will []/forum/images/icons/wink.gif[/]

Have you tested that on netscape? I'm not sure if it will show up at all with "button" in there. []/forum/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

It should show up. I believe there are only 3 specific types of buttons. Submit, Reset and Button. The latter used when defining a specific function for it. []/forum/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

I'll give it a whirl and make sure though. []/forum/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

Seems to be working for me... []/forum/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

Right... so long as it isn't "button" it should work... We have had problems with "button" in netscape.

I have never had a problem using "button" with NS 4.7+ but perhaps older versions had the problem?

your code looks good dave, we've had several versions of that for ubb, I'll hunt it down later []/forum/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

4.7, 6.0, both had problems. []/forum/images/icons/smile.gif[/] We changed it to submit and it worked...

Thanks []/forum/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

I should add that the javascript is ment for 6.0 because the form tag has been given a name "replier" otherwise all affected scripts would need to be edited and name="replier" added to the form tags. []/forum/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

Great, thanks!

Good idea. But why not remove the button or make it invisible instead of the alert-box? Just a thought...

The button can't be removed till after the page is generated again so to keep a person from hitting the button more than once while the page is trying to post causes the same information to be sent twice. Using the javascript to check before sending keeps this from happening. []/forum/images/icons/smile.gif[/]

You could remove the alert box and just return the false statement. Nothing more will happen and the information will still only be submitted once. I just figured it would give the impatient people more incentive to wait... lol []/forum/images/icons/wink.gif[/]