On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 17:26, Chris Shiflett wrote: > Kall, Bruce A. wrote: > > I have a php web page that is a detailed form with a lot of fields. If > > the user does some work on this form and let's it sit, their session can > > time out (I had this happen to the user after it sat for 2 hours). Is > > there some way to have a timer in the page and have partial form results > > sent back to the server, but still leave the form on the screen as-is? > > Why not construct your application so that a user can enter the password > again after timing out and continue? If I submit a form, and you tell me > that I've timed out, I should be able to provide my password and not > lose everything. You have all of the data in $_POST or $_GET. Do > something with it. :-) > > There may be some client-side way to handle this, but it's definitely > not necessary. Keepalive session ping :) Just retrieve some content via javascript that keeps the session going. I'm not necessarily advocating this for the best solution, but it is a client side solution with very little complexity. Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------' -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
