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Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started
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Adobe ColdFusion 8 Web Application Construction Kit, Volume 1: Getting Started

by Ben Forta, Raymond Camden, Charlie Arehart
September 2007
Intermediate to advanced
600 pages
20h 21m
English
Adobe Press
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Preventing Multiple Form Submissions

I want to share one last <cfinput> goodie with you. All Web application developers face the problem of dealing with multiple form submissions. For example, a user fills in a form, clicks the Submit button, and then gets impatient and submits it again and again and again.

If your form was a front end to database searches, this would result in multiple searches being performed. And while this won’t negatively impact your data, it will definitely slow the application. This becomes an even bigger issue when forms are used to insert data into database tables (as will be seen in the next chapter). Multiple form submissions then are a real problem, as users could inadvertently insert multiple rows to your table. ...

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