Another thought... I don't know about Windows, but on *nix machines you could use diff to compare files and if they are identical, just toss one. Assuming you know which files to compare...
________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dean H. Saxe Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2008 11:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] looking for opinions on duplicate form submissions I'm one of those users. NoScript is a very good extension if you want to know what marketing companies and other unsavory types are harvesting your surfing habits to target advertising. I enable scripting on a whitelist of trusted sites only. -dhs Dean H. Saxe, CISSP, CEH [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." --Einstein On Mar 20, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Douglas Knudsen wrote: My first thought is...disable the submit button after its mashed once. My second thought is, some people disable JavaScript. Now, what type of user disables JavaScript? Would that type of user go 'mash the button crazy', does it really matter then? If so, could use Flash(read Flex). Aside from that, maybe some sort of random key deal that you could test server side, if the key is inprocess, do nothing, ow process. But the upload issue might still be there as this occurs before your CFM processing does. I might re-factor the UI putting document uploads on a separate view from the data input. hope the rambling helps... :) DK On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Jeff Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm working on an application where a form is submitted along with various attachments (doc, pdf, xls, etc). Apparently users are submitting the same request several times and I've been asked to address this issue. At first thought, it seemed quick and simple to me, but as I've started working on it I can't decide exactly how to handle the attachments in associated with the form in the most efficient way. That brings me here. I was looking for suggestions on how to handle the attachments while I run validation on the db to see if the input from the form already exists in the db. It seems like something that would be perfect for AJAX to handle, but my AJAX skills are virtually nonexistent. So, without using AJAX (or if you can break it down using AJAX for a novice) how would you handle the situation? The main issue I'm having, is that if I do the validation after the form submission, CF is assigning a temp directory to my attachment file. So what is submitted as this: "C:\Documents and Settings\JHoward\Desktop\PO Request mods.doc" ends up as this after submission and validation: "C:\ColdFusion8\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\temp\wwwroot-tmp\n eotmp13963.tmp " and then when I pass it to the CFFILE, it tells me the file doesn't exist. I'm really just looking at the different ways other people would handle this situation to try and decide so any input would be great. Thanks in advance. Jeff ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software <http://www.figleaf.com> To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> ------------------------------------------------------------- -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software <http://www.figleaf.com> To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink <http://www.fusionlink.com> ------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------- Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -------------------------------------------------------------
