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Need Help!!! (PHP related)

Jul 25, 2005 8:48PM PDT

Hello

I've created a Flash questionnaire on my website, after the users fill in their feedback and click the submit button, all the details is forwarded to a PHP script on my server. then within the PHP code I have sorted the results and placed them inside a text file on my server, and also I place the users feedback in a MySQL database as well.

the main concern here is that, some of my friends which have completed the questionnaire, their feedback is not recieved by my code, since I cant see their details neither in the database or the txt file!!!

I was very shocked, cause anytime I try it, it works fine!!

and I beilieve there are alot of cases like that which have happend, and I'm not sure why, might it be that the server is overloaded with too many requests to the same PHP file or something like that....

any help on this is much appreciated, cause I'm very depressed now since I have lost alot of user feedback this way!!!

thanx in advance

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The usual.
Jul 25, 2005 10:55PM PDT

Many turn up the security of the browsers as well as install Privacy Filters by McAfee or other and this strips such information on the posting step of the code.

It may not be you but said privacy filters.

Given what's in your post, I can't guess anything else.

Bob

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hmm.
Jul 26, 2005 12:55AM PDT

Is it just them? Or is it everyone who uses it. If its just them then its probably like R. Proffitt said and its privacy settings. If its everyone, make sure your gathering the information properly. Try outputting it to the screen and if that doesn't work maybe its the way your gathering. Also are you using GET or POST for the form? If you require a lot of information I suggest you go with POST, since theres a limit to how much you can type into the address bar.

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I'm using POST
Jul 26, 2005 3:35AM PDT

well xangelo, it only happens to some users not to all, the amount which is, how many of them this has happend too I'm not sure, but I believe its much more than the people who have submitted successfully without any problems.

and as I have mentioned in the title, I'm using POST method for sending the data to the server!!

still it seems very odd!!

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Typical of privacy software.
Jul 26, 2005 6:22AM PDT

You'll have to interview them to find out if they installed the usual privacy software.

Bob