I dont know what you call 'feasable' but this would be the most efficient
way of doing this:
<FORM NAME="coolform" METHOD=POST ACTION='<reference to self>'>
<INPUT type="text" name="firstName" value="<?=$firstName?>"></INPUT>
<INPUT type="text" name="lastName" value="<?=$lastName?>"></INPUT>
<INPUT type="submit" onClick="submitToServer();" value="Submit to
server"></INPUT>
<INPUT type="submit" onClick="submitToRegenerator();" value="Generate
saveable form"></INPUT>
</FORM>
<SCRIPT>
function submitToServer()
{
document.forms['coolform'].action = '<submit to server url>';
document.forms['coolform'].submit(); // May not be necessary
}
function submitToRegenerator()
{
document.forms['coolform'].action = '<submit to self url>';
document.forms['coolform'].submit(); // May not be necessary
}
</SCRIPT>
When the form is initially loaded, $firstName will not exist, therefore the
form filed will appear blank. When a special type of submit is clicked (ie
a 'generate partially filled out form' submit) it would simply re-render the
page but with all the values in the actual HTML. You can change the submit
locations of a single form depending on the button pressed using some simple
Java Script ... included ... but check the object paths of
document.forms['...'].action - I havent coded JS in a long while!
AndrewH
----- Original Message -----
From: "mat t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 7:57 AM
Subject: [PHP] PHP saving forms on client side
> I have new "blank" forms on the server and I would like to give my client
an option to save a partially filled form to his computer. Is there any way
I can do this with php?
>
> I know that if the client just saves the form using his browser then it
will only save the initial HTML, and ignore the partially filled bits.
Therefore I need to use post/get to send the partially filled bits to PHP,
>
> This means hard coding all the HTML (in php) and inserting the variables
that are posted from the previous form.
>
> Is there any simpler/easier way of doing this with PHP? because this is
not feasible if there are 100s of forms.
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
>
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