Form question

Hi,
There are a few pointers you may like to consider..
Although I believe this can be done, it is not widely known due to it could fall in the wrong hands and we would all end up getting more unwanted mail than we already get putting it mildly.
Do you not also think it is the persons choice to supply their email address and what if they want to use another email address for a reply, etc, etc.
What do you require such a script for anyway?
Also, I don't think you will find your answer on any respectable forum board.

Best stick to plan A and ask for it I guess.

Ian

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Ian,

Thanks for your reply. Let me explain what I am trying to do, and maybe you'll understand better. I maintain a web site for an organization. We want to use the web site for election of officers. I want to put a form out on the site where they can use radio buttons to select whom they are voting for for President, etc. I don't think I will have any problems, but I wanted to eliminate the possibility of having someone vote more than once. I thought if the persons email address was automatically included in the response, I would know if the person had already voted. Any other ideas to accomplish this would be appreciated. Thanks again.

Bob

Why not use a cookie (and hope your voters have cookies enabled). Then using jscript to check if the cookie is set would disallow another vote.

Well, at least they would have to use a different computer to vote again

Hi,

If your site allows cgi, put the users in a database, and check off whether they voted or not. This implies that they must enter their addresses or some other unique value. When the form is submitted, you check if the user's vote field in the dbms is checked, incremented, or whatever, and then perform the appropriate action.

Javascript is not allowed to automatically access a user's email address. The best it can do is get the previous location, which isn't much help in your case.

Vinny

Do you have a handy example of the cookie code, I could use that.
Thanks,
Pennie

quote:Originally posted by AndyB:
Why not use a cookie (and hope your voters have cookies enabled). Then using jscript to check if the cookie is set would disallow another vote.

Well, at least they would have to use a different computer to vote again

http://wsabstract.com/script/cutindex7.shtml
that should get you started on the simple cookie trail.