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1. ventilator
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   I'm using this on an internal LAMP server.
   Many of the forms I've got have fields like the user's name, the user's email, etc.
   In these cases I'd like to cut down on some of the data entry.
   is there a simple way to pull data like this from a cookie on the client's browser (without me doing heavy code)?
   Obviously I can put the domain in the e-mail field as a default value, but still it would seem incomplete.

   If not, can I request this as a future feature?

   Additionally, I suppose I could front end the form with my own page and populate the referring link to the forms in question from my own cookie. It would be kind of handy, though, to have a check box in the form builder for something like this.

   Posted 15 years ago #

2. ventilator
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   I was thinking about this some more.

   Obviously storing things in cookies on the user side is problematic. Sooner or later someone will blindly clear their cookies and the data will be gone.

   So I was thinking a better idea be might be to use PHP's sessions with MySQL. It would centralize control while at the same time providing more control over when entries would cease to persist.

   Posted 15 years ago #

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