Re: OT ??: Form posting without leaving form

Bruce, You can use JavaScript to automatically post the form after a set time. For example, you can use the 'SetTimeout' function or the 'onunload' event handler. You should Google these to get a better understanding of how they work. Listed below are two very basic examples. <body onunload="JavaScriptFunction();"> SetTimeout('JavaScriptFunction();', MilliSeconds); > Kall, Bruce A. wrote: >> This is perhaps a javascript question.... >> >> Is there a way to post a form to a url without having a user submit from >> the form? >> >> 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). >> <snip> > > Hi Bruce > > A non-technical answer - is it not possible to break the form up into > multiple pages? Each page can have only a few fields, and all you can do > is store each page's submitted data and then recover what would be a > partial entry of a large form by going to the last completed "miniform" > when the user logs back in. > > My 2c > > Rory >