How to Auto Submit you Html form using PHP - php

Question

Hi guys I have html form which is set to action = something.php. now i want to autosubmit this form 9 times when submit button on the form is clicked. can i do this using PHP. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Since PHP is a server side script, you cannot actually submit the form 9 times. You can, however, do whatever you're doing with the data on the server side 9 times in a for loop.
for($i = 0; $i < 9; $i++) {
// use $_POST here and do your stuff
}

Answer 2

do you want to submit the form 9 times to the same PHP script, or do you just want to handle the submission 9 times? Don't think you can do the former from PHP, but the later would be easily handled via a loop:
for ( $counter = 0; $counter < 9; $counter += 1) {
\\ do your stuff
}
Do you have a particular reason why you want to submit the form vs. just running through the logic multiple times?

Answer 3

No, you can't do this in PHP. At least not the way you are thinking of doing it (actual multiple POST actions from your form page). The action of posting will automatically take the user to the page you are posting to, not giving you an opportunity to POST again. You could of course POST to another script form the script you POSTed to, but I don;t think this is what you are asking.
To make actual repeated physical POSTs you would likely need to use AJAX methods.

Answer 4

HTML Page
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="form.php">
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
<input type="text" name="email" id="email" />
<input type="submit" name="button" id="button" value="Submit" />
</form>
PHP Page
<?php
for($i=1; $i<=9; $i++) {
// Your posting stuff
echo $_POST['name'];
echo '<br>';
echo $_POST['email'];
echo '<br>';
}
?>
This is the way you can use.