Peter Lind wrote: > On 13 April 2010 17:27, Paul M Foster <paulf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 03:20:23PM +0200, Merlin Morgenstern wrote: >> >>> Hello everybody, >>> >>> I have form where users enter data to be saved in a db. >>> >>> How can I make php save the form data into a session before the user >>> leaves the page without pressing the submit button? Some members leave >>> the page and return afterwards wondering where their already entered >>> data is. >> I hate to be a contrarian (not really), but there is a paradigm for >> using web forms. If you want the internet to save your data, you have to >> press the little button. If you don't, then it won't be saved. Not hard >> to figure out, not hard to do. If you have to go do something else while >> you're in the middle of a form, open a new tab/window and do it. When >> you come back to your original form, the data will still be there (but >> again, not *saved* until you hit the little button). >> >> Sorry, I just get cranky with people who won't follow the rules. > > There are rules and then there's stupidity based on tradition. The > fact that websites previously threw away whatever work you had done > because you automatically got logged out of your session after half an > hour of typing does not mean you should call this a rule that should > be adhere to. Google figured it out and did so well: backup > automatically and let the user discard manually - not the other way > round that leads to lost work. > > Apart from that, I note that the OP has seemingly managed to solve the > problem and all these emails are rather pointless. Concur, and this is nothing to do with the web; http only constrains that the data should be POSTed or PUT; not /when/ a save action is triggered. Functionality is in the realm of the application, and if the client application (in this case the web page) determines that information should be iteratively saved, then that's what it should do. see google docs, gmail etc for real world examples. Regards! -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
