<script type="text/javascript">
document.onkeypress=keyevent;
    function keyevent(e){
        var c;
        var target;
        var altKey;
        var ctrlKey;
        if (window.event != null) {
            c=String.fromCharCode(window.event.keyCode).toUpperCase();
            altKey=window.event.altKey;
            ctrlKey=window.event.ctrlKey;
        }else{
            c=String.fromCharCode(e.charCode).toUpperCase();
            altKey=e.altKey;
            ctrlKey=e.ctrlKey;
        }
        if (window.event != null)
            target=window.event.srcElement;
        else
            target=e.originalTarget;
        if (target.nodeName.toUpperCase()=='INPUT' || target.nodeName.toUpperCase()=='TEXTAREA' || altKey || ctrlKey){
        }else{
        if (theyhit != true)
            {
            var theyhit = true;
                if (c == '1') { window.location='pve.php?a=1$macronig'; }";
                if (c == '2') { window.location='pve.php?a=2$macronig'; }";
                if (c == '3') { window.location='pve.php?a=3$macronig'; }";
                if (c == '4') { window.location='pve.php?a=4$macronig'; }";
                if (c == '5') { window.location='pve.php?a=5$macronig'; }";
                ?>
            }    
        }
    }
    
    </script>

Hello, the problem with the code above is that people are spamming their 1-5 keys and making a big server mess. (unintentionally) So I tried, with my basic understanding of javascript, to make it so that if they hit any key, it sets the var "theyhit" to true, and then it won't allow them again. But it simply doesn't work... and I have no idea why, so if anyone knows, that'd be wonderful!

-- V

Hey I'm just gonna bump this up now, see if there are any answers.

spamming onKey ?????????????

Fix it SERVER SIDE not client side because once the window.location has been changed the variables have all been recreated as the page reloads.

Erm... I'm not entirely sure what you mean. I just want to set a variable when someone hits a key, and thus the next time they hit a key, it won't send the action again. It's not a server-side problem, it's just them holding down the key or double-hitting it.

It won't help!!!

set the variable by all means.

BUT as soon as the page location changes, the variable value will be GONE

But that is okay, because it should do that. It loads the page again, they hit the key again to go to another page. The problem is on that one page, they are hitting it twice, and sending the request twice.

Finally figured it out. Put var theyhit = false; under document.onkeypress=keyevent;

Pretty funny that a guy - a moderator, no less - who has almost 20,000 posts couldn't help me with the most amateur of problems. Perhaps he didn't read the post or javascript very well because I have 1/10,000 the posts he has. Not a very newbie-friendly forum. I won't be returning, which I'm sure you won't mind, because who needs a noob like me obviously. Just a friendly suggestion to reconsider your poor attitude. Cheers.

Chill out Alev....
I honestly have not understood neither what you wanted to do without re-reading several time your posts.

Chris may be a bit rough, but it's what happens when you deal with the "give me the code, I don't want to search" guys.

Not that you are.
But in the end, we tend to give more time towards peoples with questions we understand easily.

We do (and I'm sure I talk for most of us) try to be the most open and insightful we can, but I'm sure you can understand that sometime, the mood is just not there.