Need help with HEADER

reub77

this is what I would use to redirect to another page

But how do I get it to close the current window and either open a new window or use any window left over? The reason I ask is because I'm doing a pop-up window login. It would be neat if when its all authenticated that it closes and directs the page underneath to the right url. how do I do this?

LordShryku

I'm not real sure what you're asking here? Do you want that URL to pop up? Or do you just want to redirect to that URL?

reub77

It's already a pop-up. I want it to do all the userid and password checks and then close and redirect either the window that popped it up in the first place or open a new window and redirect it. The first would be preferred. Maybe you could embed some javascript or something. I'm just not 100% sure of the capabilities of the header function. What does everyone think?

Thanks

LordShryku

Well, none of this has to do with PHP, but here ya go 🙂
Edit all of this to look the way you want, but this is the javascript you will need.

1st page(index.htm):
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">

</script>
</head>
<body>
<a href="javascript:; " onClick="MM_openBrWindow('popuppage.htm','','')">popup
here</a>

2nd page(popuppage.htm):
<form name="authenticate" method="post">
<table border="0">
<tr>
<th alighn=right>User Name:</th>
<td><input name="user" type="text" size="20"></td>
<tr>
<th alighn=right>Password:</th>
<td><input name="pass" type="text" size="20"></td>
<tr>
<td colspan=2 align=center>
<input name="submit" type="submit" onClick=opener.location='newpage.htm';self.close() " value="Login">
</table>
</form>

3rd page(newpage.htm)
No JS needed...

<body>
This is your new page
</body>

Good luck 🙂

reub77

I'm doing the authentication by looking at a database in php. The database is in mySQL. I have it all working except after I know the user correctly logged in how do I get where I want to be? The pop-up should close when authentication is good. But if I redirect the user the pop-up will load a page into it and it will get cut-off. So I need it to close, and then I guess somehow before closing create a cookie if the authentication was correct. Thats all fine and dandy but how would I use the window underneathe the pop-up and redirect it to where I want to be? CAn I or is there another way of doing this? Should I just open another window? I still want the pop-up idea though. I'm still thinking it over so I'm not concrete yet. What does everybody think? The solution above is mostly javascript an html but I will be using PHP, there's no way around it.

Thanks

reub77

bump

MrAlaska

The code LordShryku gave you demonstrates a child window posting back to a parent window. You can also have PHP generate any javascript you want. If you want the window to close just instruct php to send a javascript close() command.

Any design that depends on javascript for functionality is asking for trouble, though. Aside from the fact some people do not enable scripting, some times browsers suddenly lose their ability to read it properly. (anybody remember Netscape 6.0?)

I say get the page working in HTML first, then add any additional client side validation or light seasoning to suit.