MediaWiki:FormRestorer.js

// /* Save form contents in a cookie, and read them from there again. Author: User:Lupo, January 2008 License: Quadruple licensed GFDL, GPL, LGPL and Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 (CC-BY-3.0) Choose whichever license of these you like best :-)

var FormRestorer = { getCookie : function (cookie_name) {   if (   document.cookie == null || document.cookie.length == 0        || cookie_name == null || cookie_name.length == 0) return ""; var start = document.cookie.indexOf (cookie_name + '='); if (start < 0) return ""; start = start + cookie_name.length + 1; var end = document.cookie.indexOf (';', start); if (end < 0) return document.cookie.substring (start); else return document.cookie.substring (start, end); }, saveForm : function (cookie_name, form_id, additional_data, cookie_attributes) {   var form = document.getElementById (form_id); if (form == null || form.elements == null || form.elements.length == 0) return; var cookie_val = null; var form_val = form_id; if (additional_data) { form_val = form_val + '/=' + additional_data; cookie_val = ""; }       for (var i = 0; i < form.elements.length; i++) { var element = form.elements[i]; if (element.nodeName.toLowerCase == 'form') continue; // Don't do nested forms. var element_value = null; var single_select = false; switch (element.type) { case 'checkbox': case 'radio': element_value = (element.checked ? 'T' : 'F'); break; case 'select-one': single_select = true; // Fall-through case 'select-multiple': for (var j = 0; j < element.length; j++) { if (element[j].selected) { if (element_value == null) { element_value = "" + j;               if (single_select) break; } else element_value = element_value + '/' + j;                         } }         break; case 'text': // case 'file': // Is read-only anyway, we cannot set it (security policies) case 'password': case 'textarea': element_value = element.value; if (element_value == null) element_value = ""; break; default: // We don't do 'hidden' inputs. We also don't do buttons yet. Would we need to? break; } // end switch if (element_value != null) { var this_item = element.id; if (this_item == null || this_item.length == 0) this_item = element.name; this_item = this_item + '/' + element.type + '=' + element_value; if (cookie_val == null || cookie_val.length == 0) cookie_val = this_item; else cookie_val = cookie_val + '\f' + this_item; }   } // end for if (cookie_val != null) { document.cookie = cookie_name + '=' + escape (form_val + '\f' + cookie_val) + (cookie_attributes != null ? cookie_attributes : ""); } },  readForm : function (cookie_name) {   try { var cookie = FormRestorer.getCookie (cookie_name); if (cookie.length < 3) return null; var pairs = unescape (cookie).split ('\f'); if (pairs.length < 2) return null; var values = new Array (pairs.length); // First one is the form id     for (var i = 0; i < pairs.length; i++) { var j = pairs[i].indexOf ('='); var k = pairs[i].lastIndexOf ('/', j); if (j < 0 || k < 0) { values[i] = null; continue; }       var element_name  = pairs[i].substring (0, k); var element_type = pairs[i].substring (k+1, j); var val  = pairs[i].substring (j+1); var value = null; switch (element_type) { case 'checkbox': case 'radio': value = (val == 'T'); break; case 'select-one': value = new Number (val); break; case 'select-multiple': {             var numbers = val.split ('/'); value = new Array (numbers.length); for (var j = 0; j < numbers.length; j++) value[j] = new Number (numbers[j]); }           break; default: value = val; break; } // end switch values[i] = {id : element_name, type : element_type, val : value}; } // end for return values; } catch (some_error) { return null; } } } // end FormRestorer