Question. Does the Tabs and Divs work under Mozilla Based Browsers? On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 23:58:52 -0200, Manuel Lemos <mlemos@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > on 02/09/2005 01:38 PM trlists@xxxxxxxxxx said the following: > > I have a form which is too long to be useful displayed on one page. I > > have it broken up into 7 sections. All 7 are generated by the same PHP > > source file, from data in a database. > > > > When the user updates a section they can submit it and go to the next > > section, or submit it and finish (return to a higher-level page). > > There is also a navigation form at the top that lets them jump from any > > section to any other, and uses JavaScript to prompt if they try to jump > > without having saved changes they made to the page. All of this is > > working fine. > > > > What's bothering me here is that when the user is done editing the data > > I use their input to regenerate a style sheet (the form allows them to > > customize the appearance of a web page for their customers). That's > > expensive -- relatively speaking -- in server load so I'd rather do it > > only once, when they're really done. But right now I do it every time > > they submit any page -- i.e. whenever any of the seven pages is > > submitted, the generation code runs. I don't see any simple way to let > > them jump around between pages, yet for me to know when they are truly > > finished with all the data. Of course I can give the required > > instructions -- "after you are done you have to click submit to save > > all the data" but I bet that those won't be read and the users will > > jump around, fail to save, and then complain that their changes are > > getting lost. > > > > Any thoughts on the design issues here? > > You may want to take a look at this class than handles multipage forms > with pages either as wizard like (sequential access) or tabbed like > (random access): > > http://www.phpclasses.org/multipageforms > > There is also this generates a single page using Javascript and DIVs to > show you only part of the form at a time and links to switch to other pages: > > http://www.phpclasses.org/wizard > > -- > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > > PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP > http://www.phpclasses.org/ > > PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products > http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ > > Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator > http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
