Need to submit twice

Hi,

I have a form with an textarea which is using CKEditor. When I fill in the textarea and submit the form it gives me a error message: 'Please give a message'. When I hit submit again it works but then I have two new records in my database. I am not getting this problem on every form... sometimes it shows up. Does anyone have the same problem or a solution?

Greets

Mon, 11/09/2009 - 16:32

sbelgrave

Joined: 30/10/2009

Posts: 21

Re: Need to submit twice

There have been times where i've seen that behavior due to the lack of a 'return false' in the javascript function that is being called to submit the form. May or may not be your problem. Just thought I'd mention it.

function test(){
  if(something){
       myform.submit();
   }else{
       return false;
   }
}
<form id=myform >
    <input type='button' onclick='test()' >
</form>

in the above example the form would submit anyway even if test returned false

<form >
    <input type='button' onclick='return test()' >
</form>

once you added something like the 'return' above, then the button wouldn't fire.
hope that helps. the code may not be perfrect but the concept is what i'm trying to convey

Mon, 11/09/2009 - 17:11

botcharov

Joined: 09/11/2009

Posts: 3

Re: Need to submit twice

Ok, that is a possible workaround but there has to be a easier way to handle this. I will compare my forms that work and the one which not work. Though I still like to hear solution on this topic.

Greets