[Phpwebsite-developers] Using session information to limit mailings...

[Tony M. <to...@ci...>]

I am writing a mailto module to allow folks to make harvest proof links
easily on their websites.  I am almost ready for release but I have one
more thing I want to accomplish.

When it goes to the thank you form after mailing the information, the user
is able to refresh the page over and over and over effectively using my
module to mailbomb someone.

I would like to limit (possibly timewise) the number of times that an
individual session can mail.  I am thinking a 5 minute lag between mailing
based on how mailtos are usually used.  Someone reads a page, decides to
mailto, and does it.  They don't go to each and every link on the page
sending it stuff (unless they are a spammer and we want to stop that).

I'm thinking of a global variable or something like that (maybe a table
that stores session and time mailed) but I don't have a good handle on how
to access the session variable.  Does anyone have a tutorial on what
variables phpwebsite uses to store the session string for a particular
session?  I've grepped the source, and I must have missed something
because I haven't found the info.

Thanks in advance for your help,
-Tony