https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-same-form-multiple-times Gravity Support Forums Topic: Submitting same form multiple times en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:24:23 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-same-form-multiple-times#post-144799 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 16:00:14 +0000 David Peralty 144799@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Great stuff, we hope to hear feedback from people on how well it works. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-same-form-multiple-times#post-144796 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 15:55:05 +0000 BuckeyeInnovation 144796@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We just had to deal with this on a client site and took a two-pronged approach:</p> <p>1. Disable the button via JavaScript after the first click<br /> 2. Create a hash of the <code>$_POST</code> variables, store it in a session, then compare subsequent submissions' hashes. If there's a match we force a honeypot failure (form data appears to go through but the data isn't saved) for the duplicate entries.</p> <p>We released it as a plugin today, please give it a try at let us know if it works for you:<br /> <a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-duplicate-prevention/" rel="nofollow">http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gravity-forms-duplicate-prevention/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-same-form-multiple-times#post-97537 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:36:03 +0000 Chris Hajer 97537@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We'll leave it tagged as a feature request for that reason. Thank you. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-same-form-multiple-times#post-96657 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:56:55 +0000 anchorwave 96657@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p><a href="http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/submitting-same-form-multiple-times#post-78428" rel="nofollow">http://www.gravityhelp.com/forums/topic/submitting-same-form-multiple-times#post-78428</a></p> <p>Yeah Chris, that does seem to work with the sites that I've used it on. I'm not seeing duplicate payments anymore. Ideally I'd like to see some sort of true nonce involved here. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-same-form-multiple-times#post-86156 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 08:47:21 +0000 Chris Hajer 86156@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>@Scott, you can do as you describe right now using jQuery. We'll keep this one tagged as a feature request for future reference. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-same-form-multiple-times#post-86093 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 06:15:10 +0000 tcs 86093@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Turning on Ajax helped eliminate accidental duplicates for me. This may be of use until some server side solution is implemented by gf. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-same-form-multiple-times#post-85900 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 20:14:38 +0000 ScottNelson 85900@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I too am experiencing the double submission. </p> <p>I'm looking at the jquery hacks to add and evaluating implementing.</p> <p>Seems if folks are having an issue with this it would make a nice addition to the standard code base so that nobody ever has this problem.</p> <p>Either<br /> 1. Disabling the submit button when clicked<br /> 2. Change the "Submit" button to "Submitted" when clicked.</p> <p>Best option would be disabling the submit button and letting people double-click, triple-click, 1000 click to their hearts content and have it only count as a single click. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-same-form-multiple-times#post-78428 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:24:08 +0000 Chris Hajer 78428@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>That's a good idea too. Did you implement that with success? </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-same-form-multiple-times#post-78419 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:09:08 +0000 anchorwave 78419@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I thought of something else that I believe works as a work-around to this problem without having to code anything additional.</p> <p>1) Make the confirmation be a thank you page<br /> 2) Add a captcha to the form (the captcha regenerates on each submission) </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/submitting-same-form-multiple-times#post-78416 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:55:01 +0000 Chris Hajer 78416@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>There is nothing in either of those add-ons which can help prevent this. In my experience, it's because people are impatient and are not sure anything happened, so they click again, not refresh the page. When you refresh a page with a form submission, normally the browser puts up a dialog and asks if you really want to do that. There is no such dialog when submitting a second time. If that is happening to you, I recommend disabling the submit button after submission, or hiding it after submission, or changing the text on it and disabling it. </p>