Mountainous Monks,

Admittedly the link of this question to Perl is tenuous - at least the back-end of this system is being done in Perl. But since most Perl cgi programmers will at some time work on this subject, it has widespread application to the community.

The question is - how do you record, in a positive way, that a user did in fact check a "I agree to the user terms" check box on a typical online registration form?

Your online sign-up form has the usual name, email, etc, etc. You of course have a "terms of use" page that users are encouraged to read. And a check box they must check to indicate they've read and agree to the terms. You of course have checking in place so that their info is only registered if they've checked the box.

If they have checked the box, you create a record for them in the users database, and blithely go about your business. But you have no actual record that they checked the box. Just the assumption that your system worked properly and if there's a record in the DB, well, they MUST have checked the box, mustn't they?

Is there an industry-standard method for positively recording the check-box check?

Thanks,





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Get a little savagery in your life.

In reply to Covering your posterior on "Terms & Conditions" checkboxes by punch_card_don

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