[bionicsamir]

Hi All...

There is a problem and I really need a solution for this.

This is what I want to do and I cannot do in PHP, probably because I am new to php.

I want it to be such that the people can submit the form every 24 hour. If someone submits the form, then a window comes up saying that the form will be reopen for submissin after 23 hrs 59 min 59 sec and so on. So when every one goes to the website to submit the form, the will see the amount of time remaining for the form to be open for submission. Once, the 24 hrs has passed, the page for the form is displayed and people can submit the form with their information. As soon as a person submits the form, the window comes up saying the time that the form will be reopen form submission after so and so time.

The reason I want to do this is so that I receive only one form submission in the 24 hr period time.

I would really appreciate if someone could write me a code in php for this. Waiting eagerly for the reply. Thanks.

[Lost]

Hmmm do you have a MySQL database to store the submissions in? If you have that, then making a script for this is no problem.

[bionicsamir]

Originally Posted by Lost

Hmmm do you have a MySQL database to store the submissions in? If you have that, then making a script for this is no problem.

Thanks for replying.... Yes I do have MySql database to store the submission in. In fact, when the person submits the form, the information goes into the database and gets stored there. I will be waiting for your reply on how to do that. Thanks.

[Marshall]

One way to do this would be have an entry called Open and have it set to 0 then make a cron job every 24 hours to set it to 1, then once someone submits it will set it back to 0 and it always checks it before it allows then to submit.

Then if its 0 it can display the error message and if its 1 itll say the success message. You can also store the time until the cron job goes again and have that for the countdown timer. Should be easy enough to code, may have to search google about the cron job but the rest is simple queries. Hope it helps.

[Keith]

You can stay away from cron altogether and store a timestamp with each submission.

then each time the form is visited, check the latest recorded entry. if the latest entry is less than 24 hours old, show an error... otherwise show the form.

[bionicsamir]

Originally Posted by Keith

You can stay away from cron altogether and store a timestamp with each submission.

then each time the form is visited, check the latest recorded entry. if the latest entry is less than 24 hours old, show an error... otherwise show the form.

Yea.... Someone had told me to use timestamp.... and I tried using it, but due to lack of my knowledge in php.... I was not able to implement it successfully, I would realy appreciate if someone can write me a sample code that does that. Thanks.

[SirRaven]

Go check http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php - mktime() generates those timestamps.

[bionicsamir]

Originally Posted by SirRaven

Go check http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mktime.php - mktime() generates those timestamps.

Thanks for the link, actually I know that link.... I tried to use it, but I was not successful in implementing it and get the desired result. Thats why I posted to this forum. If someone can write me the code that does what I want, I would really appreciate that. Thanks.