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Oct 11.2004

Hi folks, I’m new on this forum but not new to forums.

My question is that I have a friend whose website takes orders and the payments are processed by either Pay Pal or Nochex. The problem is that sometimes the customer is pressing the confirm payment button twice and this creates a situation that the customer gets debited twice for one transaction. Is it possible to disable the button from being pressed again untill the payment has been accepted or declined?

Site was developed using Dreamweaver MX 2004 and PHP.

Any help would be appreciated.

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@MstrBobOct 11.2004 — Though it might be possible to disable it with some javascript, it's a very un-userfriendly feature. Generally, the rule of thumb is simply to include a little message, "Click submit only Once.".
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@PheasantauthorOct 11.2004 — Thanks for that but we have tried that and the problem still persists, although the amount of instances have reduced slightly.
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@MstrBobOct 11.2004 — Well, if you must, simply add this attribute to your submit button:

<i>
</i>onclick="this.disabled='disabled'"


So a submit button would look like this:

<i>
</i>&lt;button type="submit" onclick="this.disabled='disabled'"&gt;Submit&lt;/button&gt;
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@PheasantauthorOct 12.2004 — Thanks very much for that I will give it a try and let you know the outcome.
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