Why do so many directories have a time limit for the submission form? What purpose does a time limit serve, besides losing money for directory owners and pissing off submitters? I cannot communicate in words just how frustrating it is for a submitter (myself included) when he/she takes the time to input unique titles, URLs, descriptions, and keywords for a particular directory, clicks "Submit," and the damn thing gives some stupid, irrelevant message like, "Sorry, you are not authorized to access this page." WHAT?! For goodness' sake, if you (the directory owner) are going to implement a completely unecessary timeout feature (for a NON-SECURE submission form that contains no personal/credit information whatsoever), at least use a "time limit expired" error message that actually applies to the situation so that you don't completely confuse the submitter who you have already pissed off by negating his/her submission effort. Bottom Line: Directory owners, for the sake of your profits and submitters' time/sanity, please turn off the submission form time limit! Remember, many submitters will not attempt a second submission.
Why would a directory software even have this (submission form time limit!) feature, does not make any sense to me. -Princy
Yes agree we extended the time as it was to say the least one of the most off-putting features, the times I have filled in all the information then up comes the message Top post by OP
For avoiding bot submissions I have configure it for the max time available. It’s really frustrating when you get the error page.
It's to test to see if you can type fast enough and get your daily workout for the day. 3 Calories goes a long way if you submit to 200 directories.
"Stop Crying here and get a life." To whoever left me that -5 red rep, you are a sad, sad little man. I try to help fellow DP members. You are an anonymous coward leaving red reps for no reason, and you're telling ME to get a life? Quite ironic, my friend.
I have addressed this problem on phpld forums because of some complaints and I understand it is not too hard to fix (add time to the session before time-out occurs), I will be looking into fixing this early next week. Here is the link to the thread btw http://www.phplinkdirectory.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17286
It is on phpld, I think the default is 10 minutes. So if you get a phone call in the middle of submitting or get pulled away from your computer you will get timed out.
Thanks for this post, I have been trying to figure out what that submit error is. Does anyone know what the maximum time limit is that you can set it for?
So how do I disable this time limit submission in phpLD? I will disable it at once if someone can point to me where that feature is in the admin panel.
i've had the same issue several times, an yes it always happened when a made a special effort in filling the form ironic indeed
It is annoying when you have a ton of submit pages open, and you end up not able to submit to half of them.
You have to edit include/submit_session.php Where it says... Clean DB table of older entries (10 minutes = 600 seconds = 60 sec * 10) //This will increase validation and keep DB table small $db->Execute("DELETE FROM `{$tables['submit_verification']['name']}` WHERE (".(defined ('TIMENOW') && strlen ('TIMENOW') > 0 ? $db->qstr(TIMENOW) : $db->qstr(time()))." - `CREATED` > '60' * '10')"); Change the red number there to 20 for 20 minutes, 30 for 30 minutes, etc.