timer submit submits more than once

[fluff]

Hello

I am using frontpage 2002 and asp.
I have a form that submits after the user clicks submit and if the user forgets to click submit, the page submits after a couple of minutes.
It works fine most of the time, but when it submits with the timer, sometimes it goes in the db many times. When the user clicks submit, it goes in once. When the user doesn't click submit, sometimes the data goes in once and sometimes several times. Whats up with that?
Can someone help me?

[jhardman]

fluffy,

I don't know why that would be the case, but you could easily fix this by assigning a cookie or a session level variable when the user first submits the form, and if that variable is already assigned, don't save to the db.

Jared

[fluff]

Thank you Jared! I will look into cookies then.

[fluff]

Hey Jared! I think I fixed it. I had javascript like this for textbox onchange event:

function startTimer()
{
timerID = setTimeout("document.myform.submit();",120000);
}

but I changed it to this:

var timerID ="";
 
function restartTimer()
{
if (timerID != ""){
clearTimer();}
startTimer();
}
 
function startTimer()
{
timerID = setTimeout("document.myform.submit();",120000);
}
 
function clearTimer()
{
clearTimeout(timerID);
}

So far the data's only going in once=)