How To Fix phpBB Error - The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again.

By Angsuman Chakraborty, Gaea News Network
Saturday, March 22, 2008

Users, including forum admins, sometimes gets message while editing a post, sometimes for quick edits and sometimes for longer edits - “The submitted form was invalid. Try submitting again.”

This is not really an error but one of the two protection mechanisms in place in phpBB to protect your forum from spams. Here is how you can fix it.

Go to phpBB administration control panel and click on Post Settings. Now look for Limit editing time and Flood interval options.

The first setting is to limit the amount of editing time available for an user. A reasonable value is 120 (minutes).

The second setting is the minimum amount of time an user must wait between posting new messages. You can set it to something small like 10 seconds. However do not disable it as it is an useful spam protection.

Note: You can enable users to ignore this by altering their permissions.

Discussion
January 20, 2009: 5:09 pm

Hello People,

I Just joined up and am trying edit my profile but i can’t see the button!! probably staring me in the face lol

thanks guys

January 9, 2009: 4:05 pm

Greetings I’m new here
And it looks like a good forum, so just wanted to say hello! :):):)
And looking forward to participating.


NS
June 10, 2008: 6:04 pm

I’m getting this very error when trying to enable file attachements through the admin forms with phpbb3. I’ve tried modifying the settings and submitting the form immediately and after a pause but both result in the message though other admin forms do not. Any ideas?

March 24, 2008: 5:11 pm

thank you.. soo

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