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[tguignar]

I am programming an article management system.

On the form where an user can register an article, there should be a link to a page where the user can add authors for this article (and also register new authors).

My question is, is there a possibility to store the data the user already wrote into the article registration form, so that when he comes back from the author management page, he will be able to resume his typing?

I have tought of this: when leaving the article page to go to the authors page, the form is actually sumbitted and stored in my db with a "unfinished" flag.

But this would mean that the "Add authors..." link is also a submit button (I can do this using JavaScript), but then I would like to submit this form differently than when really clicking on th "Submit" button...

This is growing complicated and before I begin to programm this, I wanted to know if there was an easier way to do this. Any clue?

Thanks!

T.

[rcmehta_14]

You haven't mentioned that the Add Author page opens in a popup window or in the same window. If it opens in new popup window, I have a solution for that.

In new popup window, when your task is over, just use the javascript to submit the form in parent window with such parameters that the same form opens again. This way you can have the data available that are entered by the user again so that the user can resume typing ahead. Also this way the database entries that are made in the popup window is also availeble for user to use.

[tguignar]

Well, I was actually wondering if this was a good idea or not. Since users can now block popup windows, I was tempted to try withourt using popups. What do you think?

I am now working on an idea I had using session variables.