PHP :: How Do I Stop A Form Submission

Server-Side Form Submission - Form Submits To Form, Which Autosubmits. BAD!
I have a php form from which the user fills out their name and address and clicks "Submit".

The form goes to a page that stores the data in a mySQL database, then, using hidden fields, populates another form and actives with a javascript onLoad=submit() to send the information on to the final destination.

I cannot control or edit the final destinations web page, which is why the interim page is needed.

What I would like is for the user to fill out the form, and upon submission have the data recorded into the database and have the data passed on in a "form like way" on to the final destination BY THE SERVER, not by the use of a hidden form page that auto submits.

Any suggestions?

Here is the interim page's code below:

<?
$link = @mysql_connect($db_host_name, $db_name, $the_decoded_password) or die;
@mysql_select_db($db_name) or die;

$query = "INSERT INTO web_link VALUES ('', '$a', '$b', '$c','$d', '$e', '$f', '$g', '$h')";
$result = @mysql_query($query) or die;
?>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body onLoad="document.contactme.submit();">
<form name="contactme" method="post" action="http://www.test.com/cgi/storethisdata" >
print "<input type="hidden" name="first_name" value="$first_name"><br>";
print "<input type="hidden" name="last_name" value="$last_name"><br>";
print "<input type="hidden" name="email" value="$email"><p>";
print "<input type="hidden" name="phone" value="$phone"><p>";
?>
</form>
</body>

</html>

Form Submission Fills Form Values With Garbage
I'm attempting to do some form processing on a server that has register_globals off, however, I've run into a confusing situation and need some help.

Basically, the form is a multi-part/form-data form as I have it upload a file in addition to submit a number of other fields, but the error I have occurs even when no upload is done.

When I submit the form, all my input field variables get filled with garbage. Here's the html before submission for one of the fields: Code:

Form Self Submission
I have a form which I am trying to have submit to itself, but change 1 var so that it changes what is printed. how can i do this so it works? Code:

Form Submission
I print out the following after I submit a button. How can i print the following two buttons in the previous form which I'm submitting.Of course, these two buttons should appear only after the form is submitted. Code:

Form Submission
I have an event calendar. Users submit thier events and then I also allow them to edit thier entries. When they edit an event, that recorded is stored in a different table. I then go in and view the record. When I submit it, it updates the main table.

Below is the code for viewing the edited info. On some records the submit button doesn't work? I click on it and nothing happens? Why would this happen? PHP Code:

Form Submission
I am working on a PHP based web-site which is running a text based war game. So, there are lots of forms users need to submit. One of the form players submits is to ‘attack’ other player (not physically though). For that, player needs to fill out a form (let say this form is on the script1) having two or three input text fields.

After filling out the form user clicks on submit button which then calls (let say script 2) .This script 2 then does all the logic, modifies the database according to who won the attack , calls back the script 1 with the result to be shown to the player. But what is happening right now is that players are abusing the game by clicking the submit buttons or hitting (enter/return) key multiple times(very very quickly), although they are allowed to attack as many times as they want but not before the last attack is done means until they got the result of last attack.

They are clicking submit buttons before the last submission updates the database. Is there any way once the player submits the form, they cannot submit it again until the script 1(containing the form) gets reloaded again with the result. Also each script is a PHP Script. I hope I explained my problem. I heard there is way u can do it with JScript but what if they disable their Jscript.

Form Submission
On my three development boxes I run Gentoo, BSD and Windows with practically the same PHP config along with Apache 2. A project I recently completed was just uploaded to a client's server running Apache 2 and PHP (5.2.1). I can no longer submit any data from forms: Code:

Form Submission
I need help with this form submission, i understand for submission is the easiest thing to do in php. But i just can't get this to work.

Basically i have a form in which is a question. I have given users choice of 4 answers to this question in a dropdown menu. I just want the form to recognise what answer the user has chosen and put it into a table called support and the column 'category' in it. Code:

Form Value Submission Problems
I'm having a little problem with my php in that when I
submit a value with more than one word from a form, (for example,
"Cineworld Renfrew Street"), only the first word seems to get
submitted, so that when processing it after submission, only
"Cineworld" is available. Is there a way I should be formatting form
values to prevent this?

Submission Form To Fax Machine, Is It Possible?
I got quite a question here, is it possible that from a submission form on a website the results get faxed throught the webiste directly to a fax machine? I would really appreciate any insight on this concept. And where to start.

The Woes Of A PHP Form Submission
Good evening to the skilled Ladies and Gentlemen of the PHP world. I
am fairly new to all of this but learning quickly. I have run in to a
need to remove blank lines from a form submission after its sent back
to the web server for processing by a PHP document.

I have a textarea that users can paste lines of text in to and submit
them for inclusion in to a database. Every aspect is working
perfectly, except one. No matter what I try, I cannot get rid of
simple blank lines from the form submission.

$theLines = $HTTP_POST_VARS['userSubmitted'];

This variable ($theLines) now contains the contents from the textarea.
I have tried using ...

$theLines = explode("
", $theLines);

and

$theLines = explode("
", $theLines);

But all of the blank lines are still there. If anyone has some
snippet that they would share, I would be very grateful.

Disabling Enter Key For Form Submission
Could anyone please help me with tips on how to disable a ENTER key, so that a form is submitted only when the designated button for submission is clicked.

Display Of " And ' From Form Submission
I have single and double quotes in the text field which is submitted on one page. When I display this on the next page I see ' and " in place of ' and " respectively.

Bug In IE5+ Involving Form Submission & Images With '?' In URL
I have been experiencing problems with images containing query strings in their URLs. When I land on a page containing these images having submitted a form they don't appear. I heard this is an IE bug. Is there a quickish workaround using PHP? I tried processing the form(s) with an intermediate script, then redirecting to the destination page but still no images.

PHP Form Submission Data Errors
One of my variables "link1" that is storing a bunch of urls is having random
lines being duplicated on form submission. I just recently swithed servers
from a PHP 4.3.3 to a 4.2.2 version. This error has only started appearing
on the new machine. The script worked fine on the old server and still does
on the test server. Any ideas? I think it might have to do with the ini
config. i am stumped. here is a link to my code.

Disallowing Multiple Submission Of A Form
i have a dynamic form that sends data to a mysql table. it sends data into the table according to variables that are passed in. e.g. form.php?book_title=abc

how do i block the user from sending information about the same "book_title" more than once?

Updating Text In Form Submission
I am using a text area form submission to add imformation to a html webpage, and I would like to be able to edit that text in the php form at a later date after submission.
Does anyone know how to get the origonal text back into the form text area for editting and resubmission?

Trouble With Mailing A Form Submission
I recently had to move all my php pages and MySQL db to a new server and may have overlooked a setting or two in the php.ini or somewhere else. This form worked up until the move. Here's the code:

Form Submission And Include Files
I have an index page that I want to put an e-mail newsletter signup form on. I have the form inside another page called "misc.php" that is included in the index page. So far so good. When someone submits the form, though, which page do I send the POST to? When I send it to index.php the misc.php page seems to not get the variables.

And of course if I send it to itself it works fine, but it takes me to another page, which I don't want. This is very strange.

Capturing Results Of A Form Submission
Is it possible, in PHP, to capture the resulting HTML of a submitted
form returning from a server and incorporate that HTML into say a
table, or some predefined layout?

I am trying to incorporate the resulting HTML into a layout I have
created in order to keep the look & feel of my site consistent, but
the resulting page is a plain "cheesy" page.

Encrypt Form Variables During Submission?
I've been looking around the net for a solution (I'm pretty new to php) on how to encrypt a form variable before you submit it, is this possible?

To give you an idea, I have a "change your password" type form and when the user enters their new password and clicks submit the password is sent out in the open before it's encrypted (md5) and put into the database. I'd like to encrypt it BEFORE I send it though. I plan on using SSL but I'd also like to see if what I'm trying is even possible.

Coding A Form From Email Submission
I have a customer who wants his contact page customized to be a form with questions to be answered by the person trying to contact him. When they are done filling in the form it is suppose to be emailed to him. I can not get this form to work right. Code:

Prevent URL's In Form Submission
I need a way to prevent URL's from being inserted into form fields. I have not been able to discover how to do this. Our forms are being submitted with junk URL's in the form fields. I would like to either A) Kill the form processing if URL's are posted, or B) Provide a pop up message stating that URL submissions are not allowed.

Creating A Tag Cloud Submission Form
I have recently redesigned a clip dump script and I am trying to add the ability for people to submit tags for their items. Here is what I have done so far. Code:

Stop Form Refresh
Is there a method to stopping a form refreshing? So when you submit a form, you can't hit refresh and submit the data again?

Multiple Attachments In An Email Sent From Form Submission
Currently the user selects a document to download, fills in their details and hits submit. They get the file emailed to them, and I get an email telling me their details and which document they downloaded.

However, I'd like the user to be able to select multiple documents (using tick boxes maybe) to be emailed in one mail. There might be 5 documents up there eventually and they could download as many of them as they want.

Would anyone be able to take a nose at the code below and tell me how it might be adapted for multiple attachments? I was thinking maybe to loop the attachment section, but I don't know how to do it, or what variable to use to come out of the loop. Code:

A Mystery (how To Mimic Form Submission With Headers)
I have this simple html form with only one field and a
submit button which uses the POST method. It works
fine.

I have been trying to learn php headers and found that
one could do exactly the same thing using headers.
Using ieHTTPHeaders v 1.6 - agreat FREE utility - one
can see the headers being sent when the form is
submitted, and then the php script with headers is
written.

It has worked fine always but in this particular case
although the headers are sent correctly .. the form
field value for some reason is not accepted by the
server. I was wondering if there are variables
(predefined variables) that are required by the server
but not being included in the headers.

Has anyone come across a similar problem?
How could one mimic the browser 100% - including all
the browsers predefined / environment variables?

Anyway To Stop A User From Reposting A Form?
I have a form which then goes to a page which creates a new datebase record. However, if the user refreshes the form, an identical record will be created. Is there anyway to stop the user from refreshing, or destory the variables so this cannot happen?

SPAM Contact Form How Do I Stop It?
I have a contact form on my site and a few weeks ago I started to get SPAM. I have no idea how to stop this and if I can stop it. My have little knowledge of PHP. This is the script I have. I have had a look through the forum but if Im honest its goes right over my head. Code:

Form Submission (no Button) Using PHP+cURL+ Transfer Control To Other Site
I'm trying to send data using the POST method and also have control of the browser be turned over to the website that's receiving the POST data (note that this is NOT the same as sending the data via POST method and then redirecting to the website after). I need it to work exactly like hitting the submit button on an html form, and I need it to work from PHP. It needs to POST the data to the site and also let the other site have control at the same time.

I've tried a couple of methods using both cURL and an fsocket function, but it seems like in both cases that (1) the data gets sent to the other site first, (2) then my program gets a response back, (3) and then it redirects to the other site afterwards. The data gets sort of POSTed to the other site (I get a 200 response back, and I get info showing it was posted correctly), but since the other site does not get control, it seems to dump (not save) the posted data. Code:

Stop Loop Print Form, Go Again On Submit
I have a "for" loop that steps through the results from a mysql_fetch_row(). I would like to print a form for the first column in the result set, then stop, wait for the user to submit the form, then go to the next iteration of the loop and print a form for that column...etc. Any ideas how to do this?

I don't know how to stop the loop after printing the first form (i can print all of them at once on the same page, but that's no good). I was thinking about some sort of an it statement that keyed off of some POST variable?!?!

PHP Form Submission <input Type="hidden"> Security Issues?
Someone has said to me that when using a form (method = post), that storing data in "hidden" tags

ie <input type="hidden" name="myField" value="something">
means that the user can set the value to whatever they like

So my questions are:

1. How would they do this
2. How can I stop it
3. Do I have to abandon the hidden values and go with sessions?

Multiple Submission !!!
I am looking to create a php package for multiple directory submission. Most of the directories are created with phpld so, I want to inject my submission details to all of them from my script !!

Site Jump During Submission
1)I'am collecting form data on my server from a HTML form.

The next steps Iam trying to figure out is:

2) I want to then go to another site (payment site)

3) then back to my site.

4) extract original data gathered from step 1

I know the simple method would be to go to pay site first then to my site. However I would like my form first! I also do not want to write the data into mysql in step 1. Not until step 4.

Trouble With Redirection Upon Submission
I have a poll on my website, but I'm having trouble with the redirect when someone hits submit - it goes to the action php file, and not back to the home like I want them to. Here is my code if anyone can help me out.

<?php
include "connect.php";
$s=$_SERVER["REMOTE_ADDR"];
$ipcheck="SELECT * FROM P_ip where IP='$s'";
$ipcheck2=mysql_query($ipcheck);
while($ipcheck3=mysql_fetch_array($ipcheck2))
{
$ip=$ipcheck3[IP];
}
if($ip)
{
print "Thank you for voting in our poll";
}

else
{
$pollquest="SELECT*From P_question";
$p2=mysql_query($pollquest);
while($p3 = mysql_fetch_array($p2))
{
print "$p3[question] <br>";
}
$pollans="Select * from P_choices";
$pollans2=mysql_query($pollans);
print "<form action='wp-content/themes/matchbox1.1/pollit.php' method='post'>";
print "<input name='redirect' value='/' type='hidden'>";
while($pollans3=mysql_fetch_array($pollans2))
{
print "<input type='radio' name='answer' value='$pollans3[ID]'> $pollans3[answer]<br>";
}
print "<input type='submit' value='submit' value='vote'>";
print "</form><br>";

}
?>

Avoid Multiple Submission
I receive multiple copy of the same form because the client press very fast, many times, the submit button. Is it possible to limit this problem? for example timing the next submit.

Bulk Submission To Whois
I have a script (php) which allows me to query a whois server and return specific fields.

My question is, how would I submit more than one domain name at a time to my script so that each returned field is then stored into a database file associated with the domain that is queried?

There is approx. 8000 domain names registered thru our registry and we need to update the admin contact emails. The domains are currently stored in a MySql db which can be easily converted to a text file.

Blank Submission Code
on my site i allow multiple files to be uploaded at once , but was wanting to put in some code so that if a black submission (no photos selected) was submitted the code would spit an error and exit Code:

Include Prevents Submission
I have a form which when the submit button is pressed it should go to a different page.... but when i have an include to do with absolutely nothing relating to the page other than to display how much money the user has.. and what level they are it just refreshes the page rather than doing the relocation.

If i remove the include how ever it works . Would any one know what sorta thing causes this so i can check it out ?

How Do You Filter Html From A Text Box After Submission?
I am making a forum and the users in the forum can post html. I need a way inwhich i can stop them doing so, something that will filter the html. Any ideas?

Secure Email Submission Script ...
Can anyone suggest a secure php email form submission script? I know
there are a lot of security risks with forms. What is the best and
least vulnerable canned script?

Scripted Search Engine Submission - How?
I am about to build a web site that contains a news section. Basically,
the site owner will login to an admin section and from there, be able
to add news.

What I would like to know is how can that news article (i.e.
http://www.mysite.com/view-news.php?news_id=355) be automatically
submitted to a search engine, such as Google. Is it possible? My
concern is that search engines dont allow this for fear of spam.
Unfortunetely, I cannot ask the intended web owner to do this as their
computer skills may be limited. Asking them to manually submit a
website may be beyond them.

Also, how often does a search engine, such as Google, return to an
indexed website? Whats the estimate if anybody knows? Another way this
could be done is when Google follows through links on the site it may
index newly added articles.

Checking The Database To See If Submission Already Exists...
I have set up a form. Once the form is submitted the information is sent to this page (see code) below. I am trying to use an if statement to check if the VIN already exists in the database before it is INSERTed into MySQL. If the vin does exist the user gets an error saying so. If it doesn't exist the ELSE statement INSERTs the information into the database and the user gets a thank you message. Code:

Enforcing POST Submission Location
I am considering checking my scripts to make sure the forms are being submitted from my site. The problem with that is I wonder if certain browsers or firewalls can just block referrer value so I cannot access it.

In order words, is it possible that the value could just be NULL, and then I end up blocking real users? I know when I track website referrers, the value is frequently not set, so wouldn't this be the same case when tracking script locations using PHP?

How Do I Stop A Splogger
Is there a way through the .htaccess file that I can stop a domain from scraping content from my blog and displaying it on their blog?

Stop A For Loop
I have been messing around with a tutor I found on phpFreaks.com (http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/73/0.php) and what I would like to know is how to stop the for loop for the other pages going over 10.

This it the pices of code which loops to links to the other pages but I don't want it to loop any more than 10 times? PHP Code:

Stop Suppressing 0's
Ok. Im doing some math on numbers like this:

1.0013
0.0032

etc.. Now, I need to multiply those by a quantity. $totalcost = $cost * $quantity;

What happens (which is wrong for this application) is that if there are trailing 0's (1.2310) it displays the number as 1.231 I have to format them like this : 0.0000 with the trailing 0's and all. Anyone know what I can do to stop php from suppressing the 0's ?

Stop PHP Utterly!
Is there a way to stop the PHP cgi completely?
I made a typo and got caught in an infinite loop. Usually I can wait until
the execution time expires and fix the script but this time it kept going
and going and going!
I keep a log for error reporting and it went from 0 bytes to 8 megs until I
finally just rebooted the server! I also tried pausing/stopping the web
server. The max time for scripts is 60 seconds. I am wondering if there is a
function that pretty much just stops PHP dead in it's tracks and forces it
to reset itself or if there is a command line I can throw it to make it
stop?

Stop PHP Parsing
I have a script where I use some PHP in the beginning (between the <head> tags). But then I want to disable further parsing of the script, but still wite out the rest of the html-code. So, if I later write some php code, it'll be written out just as it is, not be parsed. exit() or die() doesn't work in this case.