PHP: Auto hit the submit button after limited time

Question

Sorry, I don't know codes much.

I want to make a quiz exam were student will submit his/her answer between a limited time.

I tried to use setTimeout(); unfortunately didn't worked for me. The page was refreshing but I didn't get anything form echo $_POST['name'];

My form-

<form action="result.php" method="POST">
   <input type="text" name="answer" >
   <input type="submit" name="submit" >
</form>

If the student can't finish the answer between 10 Sec, the page will stop him to type anyting and will take him to result.php where he can see the answers he gave.

result.php

<?php

echo $_POST['answer'];

?>

Hope you will solve it for me.

Maybe redirect with a meta tag?: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3292038/redirect-website-after-certain-amount-of-time#answer-3292056 — Emil S. Jørgensen, Dec 06 '16 at 12:48

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 06 '16 at 12:47

1

You can do this in jquery like:

setTimeout(function() {   
    //call click event after a certain time
    $('input[name="submit"]').click();
}, 10000);    // time is ms

answered Dec 06 '16 at 12:47

Mayank Pandeyz

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score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 01 '19 at 09:26

Blueblazer172's answer was correct. But give your form an id then submit or else js will submit all the forms in the page

html

<form id="anything" action="result.php" method="POST">
   <input type="text" name="answer" >
   <input type="submit" name="submit" >
</form>

JS

setTimeout(function(){
    $('form').submit();
}, 10000);

PHP: Auto hit the submit button after limited time

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