First of all I want to say thanks to you, because this article helped me a lot. Keep posting like these

Thanks

So instead of using:
“&title=” + escape(title)

Use:
“&title=” + encodeURIComponent(title)

It was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be. I simply rewrote the html of the #timestamp with an image and text just before the call.

…
$(“#timestamp”).html(” Saving page data…”);

$.ajax({
…

Thanks for the great script!

Very simple and easy to implement!

when i try to autosave using the above Jquery, autosave.php, and add_articel.php, the problem i am facing is that i get only the timestamp value correct rest nothing is stored in the table named deck
in place of add_article.php i have a file named createflashacrd.php in which i have following text fields
school
course
professor
type_deck
subtype_deck
special_note
status

The approach for that one would be to check first whether the user input is not empty before creating a row in the database. However, the article_id will instead be stored in the session:

autosave.php

if ((!empty($title) || !empty($content))
{
   if (empty($_SESSION['article_id'])
   {
      //create new article on database
      mysql_query("INSERT INTO `articles`(title, content)
      VALUES($title, $content)");
      $_SESSION['article_id'] = mysql_insert_id();
   }
   else
   {
       mysql_query("UPDATE `articles`
       SET title = '$title', content = '$content'
       WHERE id = '".(int)$_SESSION['article_id']."'");
   }
}

of course for every instance of add_article.php you need to destroy any leftover sessions from previous instances:

add_article.php

unset($_SESSION['article_id']);

It would be of great help to me to explain the logic behind this – I don’t need the code itself, just an information on how you would do that. Creating a blank row every time is a hassle for me and my users.

Thanks.