Disabled submit button disables form

[Yesideez]

heh doesn't that sound like a front-page story title for a newspaper

 

I have a submit button on my form:

<input type="submit" name="subsave" value="Save Changes" onclick="this.value='Please Wait';this.disabled=true;" class="gadbut">

 

I'm detecting it with this:

if (isset($_POST['subsave'])) {

 

If I have the disable the button bit my page refreshes but the submit button is completely ignored. If I make it so it only changes the text and doesn't disable it detects the submit button.

 

I've disabled a submit button before with an onclick event but can't remember how.

 

Javascript isn't my strongest point...

[Kieran Menor]

Wouldn't it theoretically be a desired effect that disabled form fields aren't included when the form is submitted?

 

Why not just use some other form field to determine if a form was submitted or not?

[Yesideez]

It prevents a user from spamming the site if a connection is slow by repeatedly clicking submit. I had this happen on another site I was helping with a while back and it was very frustrating so we disabled the submit with Javascript once it had been clicked - fixed the problem instantly.

[Kieran Menor]

Yes, I know, but just use some other field in your PHP code to determine if the form was submitted.

[Yesideez]

Why? I've had this working in the past but I'm using JS differently than I did in the earlier site and it worked.

 

Trying to figure it out again!