Hi everybody,
I' m not sure this is the right list to ask this kind of question but
I don't know where else. We are using html forms to insert and update news articles (texts) stored in a mysql database. Ever so often one of our journalists forgets to press the submit button or his computer crashes and everything written so far is lost. Is it possible to built something like an "autosave" function that submits the form data automatically every couple of minutes and updates the database entry?
Any hint's where to look up these kind of things?
It is sort of the right place :-)... Because this is a client side action (at least what triggers it) you are probably going to want to look to javascript. I believe you can setup timers in javascript that will trigger actions, that will be the hard part, the easy part is the action that is triggered is just a standard submit of the form, then the server side script would just store the info and reprint the form with the fields filled in the same, which I am assuming you can do.
I believe there is an HTTP status code that tells the browser that the form was successfully submitted, but not to go anywhere. I don't know what it is off the top of my head, but I think it would work in this case.
-- Andrew Gaffney
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