Whoops, let out a piece: this will reset the timer after success, so the
autosave will happen again:
function handleResponse(responseText, statusText)
{
startTimer();
}
If you pass a successFn into save(), then run startTimer() in that
success function, so that the timer restarts after the successful autosave.
- Jack
Jack Killpatrick wrote:
> Dan,
>
> I'm using the form plugin to do an autosave. Here are some chunks of
> what I do (it's not namespaced, so you might want to add that, etc):
>
> var _timerRunning = false;
> var _timer = null;
>
> function startTimer()
> {
> if (! _timerRunning)
> {
> _timer = setTimeout ( "save()", 12000 );
> _timerRunning = true;
> }
> }
>
> $(document).ready(function() {
> startTimer();
> });
>
> function save(successFn)
> {
> var options = {
> type: 'POST',
> beforeSubmit: beginRequest,
> success: (successFn != undefined) ? successFn :
> handleResponse,
> semantic: true
> };
>
> $("#surveyForm").ajaxSubmit(options);
> }
>
> You can optionally pass success/callback function into save(), ie:
> save( onSuccess ). In my case, it was OK for it to post to the url
> declared in the form tag, but there's a url option you can set in the
> form plugin, too. Not shown above: I also have a hidden name="action"
> element that I change the value of at different times, based on button
> clicks (if the user causes a save), to support different handling on
> the post to the server.
>
> - Jack
>
> Dan Wilson wrote:
>> I am attempting to use the .serialize function to post a form via
>> Ajax. The form is very large and has just about every type of form
>> element possible. I was not clear on the semantics to select all form
>> elements in a particular form and all the examples I found were for
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>> The use case is an autosave for the form. I looked at the form plugin
>> and it seemed to want to take control of the form submit. In my use
>> case I want to save the form in the background and let the user
>> continue to work with the form.
>>
>>
>> All help and advice is appreciated.
>>
>> dw
>>
>>
>>
>
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