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Posted by Robert Cummings on 06/14/05 01:36
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.
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