[FX.php List] Save to database without a Submit?

[Jonathan Schwartz]

I guess this begs the question what the client is trying to protect against.

I was surprised to see you say that the end user connection could be 
sporadic. I had always thought that if the local connection failed, 
then the rest of the php session was lost.  I need to try this ....

J

>On 05/12/2009, at 8:43 AM, Jonathan Schwartz wrote:
>
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>I have a client who is very worried about losing form data should 
>>something should go wrong during a data entry session, such as 
>>dropped connection or so.
>>
>>I have already decided to write to the file upon every page submit 
>>(versus saving to sessionand writing it all at once at the end of a 
>>multi page form).  On a technical level, I imagine that automatic 
>>submits can be accomplished using AJAX, perhaps to a temporary 
>>file. But is this a reasonable practice?
>
>No. And you only need a connection at the point of submission 
>anyway, as opposed to being always connected like you would for a 
>AJAX submit on every field... I do minutes off-line into a form, and 
>only press submit when I am back online - even if I forget, the form 
>fails, and the Back button shows it all again...
>
>Cheers
>
>Webko
>
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