https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Automatically submit a form using a timer en Thu, 21 May 2026 17:50:16 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/automatically-submit-a-form-using-a-timer#post-8363 Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:19:29 +0000 yuniar 8363@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Sorry for delayed response on this! I've just tested and it doesn't seem to work indeed.<br /> We might need to do some direct modification to one of MachForm file for this.</p> <p>Can you send me your "includes/view-functions.php" file and let me know the URL to one of your form?</p> <p>I'll try to do the modification and send it back to you.</p> <p>Please mail to: customer.service [at] appnitro.com </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/automatically-submit-a-form-using-a-timer#post-8341 Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:21:51 +0000 Alasdair 8341@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hiya,</p> <p>I've tried inserting the code into the form description field but unfortunately can't get it to work. Have also tried without a timer.</p> <p>My changes were to add &lt;form name = "autosubmit" and adding the code:</p> <p><code>&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;setInterval( "autosubmit()", 5000 );function autosubmit(){ document.autosubmit.submit;}&lt;/script&gt;</code></p> <p>I noticed that it was creating an error on the actual form editing page in the Machform backend, but sometimes it would add and save. </p> <p>Could you test this and see if it works for you?</p> <p>Kind regards,</p> <p>Alasdair </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/automatically-submit-a-form-using-a-timer#post-8286 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:45:22 +0000 Alasdair 8286@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hi Yuniar,</p> <p>Many thanks for the speedy reply.</p> <p>I'll give that a try. Should I specify a generic name for the form? I'm thinking that would let any form_id post. i.e if the form is named "postmyform" then any form and ID should automatically post....</p> <p>Cheers</p> <p>Alasdair </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/automatically-submit-a-form-using-a-timer#post-8285 Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:35:42 +0000 yuniar 8285@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I think that should work.<br /> The easiest way to add the javascript code is by copying the code into your "form description" field.</p> <p>However, you need to adjust the code into a single line, like this:<br /> <pre><code>&lt;script type=&#39;text/javascript&#39;&gt;setInterval( &quot;autosubmit()&quot;, 5000 );function autosubmit(){ document.theFormName.submit;}&lt;/script&gt;</code></pre> <p>Make sure it's only a single line of code </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/automatically-submit-a-form-using-a-timer#post-8272 Sun, 03 Jan 2010 18:27:13 +0000 Alasdair 8272@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hi everyone,</p> <p>I was wondering, is it possible to automatically submit a form using javascript?</p> <p>I have multiple forms that after submission populate a Machform form/fields automatically. My plan is to change the standard machform input fields to "hidden" and "display:none" and automatically submit the form after 5 seconds so I can save the data in Machform (because it's great!)</p> <p>On other forms i use code similar to:</p> <p>&lt;script type='text/javascript'&gt;</p> <p>setInterval ( "autosubmit()", 5000 );</p> <p>function autosubmit()<br /> {<br /> document.theFormName.submit;<br /> }</p> <p>&lt;/script&gt;</p> <p>Would this work? </p>