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PHP - Detect Auto Form Submission

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 8:57 pm
by spickles
Can anyone tell me how to detect a form that was auto-submitted using JavaScript? I can easily detect manual form submissions with the 'isset' method. But I have a form that is submitted using JavaScript document.forms[0].submit(). How can I detect this on the server side using PHP?

Regards,
Scott

Re: PHP - Detect Auto Form Submission

Posted: Sun Jul 05, 2009 9:08 pm
by Skara
Have a hidden field and change the value when it autosubmits.
e.g.

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<input type="hidden" id="autosubmit" name="autosubmit" value="0" />
...
document.getElementById('autosubmit').value = "1";  //something like this, I'm a little rusty on my javascript...
document.forms[0].submit();