Saving changes before going to another page

[harman]

Hi, I have form where you can make changes to your profile. I also have some links on that page. I want to make sure that if the user made some changes and forgot to click on save, the changes are saved before the link takes him to the other page. Since to form is very big and there is a lot of validations i cant put the form inside a function and call it when the user clicks on a link. I also thought i could do something like
href="javascript:go_submit(document.editprod)"
on every link but how will i make it to go to the desired page after the changes are made...or may be i can put the update code in a different page and check for certain values which decide which page to go to...any suggestions

[Tomz]

I guess this is difficult to do in php

You could write a javascript function that validates the form (or checks if the save button was clicked) before redirecting to the link that the user clicked on.

Why don't you just make a popup window where the user can edit his/her profile that cannot be closed/lose focus except when he/she clicks the save button? This will force the user to submit the form before returning to your site and click on links...

To keep a window focussed:

<script language="JavaScript"><!--
function keepFocused() {
    self.focus();
    setTimeout('keepFocused()',100);
}

keepFocused();
//--></script>

Your submit button would look like this:

<input type="submit" value="Save Profile" name="Submit" onClick="javascript:window.close()">