RE: form response

Michael

One possible solution here is to rewrite your script so that the very first 
thing it does is send the thankyou page to the visitor, and then does the 
processing. No reason to make the visitor sit and tap his fingers while the 
server plays with databases and sends email.

Another solution, but not always a readily feasible one, is to switch 
hosting companies. Don't be afraid to ask the prospective host about server 
capabilites and load. If your provider is hosting more than a few 
process-intensive web sites, this will put a heavy load on the server and 
slow things down for everyone.

Good Luck!

Larry Dozier
$5.25 Web Hosting
http://a1webserver.com

>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-basics(at)hwg.org]On
>Behalf Of Michael T. Patterson
>Sent: Friday, May 26, 2000 8:54 AM
>To: hwg-basics(at)hwg.org
>Subject: form response
>
>
>Hello all,
>
>Here's an html / javascript / php question for you.
>
>A visitor to your web site fills out a form and presses submit.  You've
>validated the form fields with JavaScript, and you've directed the
>form's "action" attribute to a PHP script which drops the visitor's
>information into a database, sends off an email or two, and then
>generates HTML that thanks your visitor for completing the form.  But
>the visitor does not see the response page right away; before the
>visitor sees the "thank you" response, the server has to process the
>results and send the new page back.  So the visitor, thinking nothing is
>happening with the page, presses submit again.  And again, and again....
>
>I see this infrequently and suspect the problem depends on server load
>and net traffic that slows the response time.  How do you all deal with
>this problem?
>
>Thanks,
>Mike
>
>

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