address book

Anon

Hi everyone,

I have an email form. Everything works, but I want to add an address book. I have a link "address book" on the form that will open a new browser window and then print a list of all the people and email addresses. I have check boxes next to each address.

Once you check the boxes you want to email to and press submit I want it to close that new address book window and put all the email addresses into a field on the first main page (which has the email form). The field it is going into is "to".

I know how to take it from the checked email addresses to putting it in a field on the same browser, but how would I take the email addresses that are checked and put it in the original browser window form field??

Any ideas?? Thanks for your time. Any help is greatly appreciated.

rrijnders

use javascript

-- Rich

Anon

Thanks, I figured that out, but I am not very familar with javascript. Can you help any further?

techek

Look at javascripts.faqts.com for a lot more help.

rrijnders

There are a lot of javascript tutorials out there, but the basic idea is this:

1) Name your forms (the original and the popup) by using the NAME attribute in the <FORM > tag.

2) In the popup form, use the "onClick" event to execute a javascript function that reads the checked values, puts those values into a string variable, then populates the appropriate field of the original form:
  <b>myForm1.toField.value=stringOfData</b>
and closes the popup window.

This being a PHP forum, I don't want to get too much into the javascript code here. If you need more help with that, email me and I will give some examples.

-- Rich