Simple help needed

[Matt]

I have a simple Guestbook function that I need some help... modifying.http://matt.artemis-fowl.com/tests/guestbook.phpI want to add a META Refresh that, after exactly three minutes, will take the information posted in the form and send it. So, basically, I want it as if the user has clicked submit after 3 minutes. Can this be done?Thanks!MattIf you need the code, just ask.

[justsomeguy]

This can't be done reliably. About the only thing you can do is to use javascript to submit the form after a certain time, but if javascript is disabled this won't work. The other thing you can do is have a timestamp that gets submitted with the form, and check if the timestamp is more than 3 minutes old once the form gets submitted. The problem with this is that the user won't know they have gone over until they submitted. You can try a combination of both of these, but like I said, it's not very reliable or user-friendly.

[Matt]

It doesn't really have to be reliable/user-friendly, I just need it so it'll do it on most occasions. Is there any tutorials to help me do this?

[justsomeguy]

I don't know of any tutorial. What you will need to do is use the javascript setTimeout function to trigger an event after a certain amount of time. The event you will want to trigger is the form's submit action. If you give your form an id:<form id="myform">The submit action in javascript would be something like this:document.getElementById("myform").submit();