Saving form progress

[thesuperav]

Is there an easy way for a user to save their progress on a multi-page form? This is in case that they accidently close the browser, or even their computer crashes.

If there's no easy way, I thought that perhaps emailing their results after each page may be a way of saving their work indirectly. And if something goes wrong, they can simply start from the page that wasn't saved. The last page would send all the responses like usual. Is it possible to send the results of the form intermediately on a multi-page form?

[russellr]

Hi,

Well, the data is kept in a PHP session. The session is usually controlled by a cookie on the users computer, unless they've disabled cookies.

It is possible to make the PHP session more permanent and recoverable, and this will do what you want.

However, it requires significant development to FormMail to achieve this.

You can post a poll if you like to see how many people would be interested in this feature.

[MarketAgent]

I agree.

There are certain fields in my form that should not have to be filled in all of the time when a repeat user/customer logs in to order a product.

Repititive fields such as a "billing or mailing address" should retain the data via cookies. This can be done with a simple JavaScript but the JavaScript doesn't work with a multipage form.