Question

can anyone give me some guide or point me a way, how can I save a html web form which is partially filled as draft, then it can be reloaded later allowing user to continue fill in all information and subsequently submit it?

I am working on a web form to gather some information input by user, using PHP and MySQL. Have no clue on this. Any guidance will be very much appreciated.

Thanks!

Answer 1

Save the information they write into your database, but set it as not published.

You can do this by creating a boolean or bit field called published in the database table.

When they save as a draft, mark published as false or 0.

Then when they finish it you can mark it as true or 1.

When you are displaying the finished forms, do a SELECT * FROM forms WHERE published = 1 and SELECT * FROM forms WHERE published = 0 to get the ones that are not finished.