Opening new browser window

[ssanders82]

Hi, I'm testing some code for a user's personalized page. They login and I display a page with their info and give them a link to edit it. That link opens a new, small window via <A HREF="..." TARGET="_NEW"> where their personal info comes up in a form where they can change it. My question is, when they submit the form (from the new window), how do I get PHP to close the new window and refresh the old window so that their updated info is displayed. And maybe a "thank you" message. Without getting into it, it is better to have the two windows instead of one, but i don't know how to do this using header(location="...") or other means. Sorry, but I'm new at PHP. Thanks guys.

[sarahk]

Two methods, use javascript to call window.opener to pass all the changes back to a hidden form on the previous page but I don't like that.

It would be better to treat the two as unrelated once they are opened. I'd submit the form in the little window and print back a "thanks" message with a button which calls javascript's window.close() and that's that.

The original window should be able to see the impact of the changes next time it's refreshed. You could even call window.opener.hiddenform.submit() to call a dummy refresh so long as "hiddenform" exists and has the necessary info.