hi, is there a way to detect on a password form a hack attempt, or pressing submit alot? i was thinking i could write a script that detects how many times the submit button was pressed on my form. other than that i cant think of a way to detect hack attempts. any help greatly appreciated. thank you. derek.

Check the IP that the submission is from ($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR']) and store it in a database or a session variable and limit the number of times it can be requested from a single IP.

Or you can store the time that each request was made from any IP and check the time of each subsequent requests and make sure it is more than XX seconds.
I do this with comments on the CMS I built. It's known a "flood time" in CMS/Forum management parlance, so the system cannot get "flooded" with requests from a single source.

ok thank you, i dont know how to do that in code yet, hehe, but thank you for telling me how to do it. derek