Another Pop-Up Window Question

David_Wood

I have search these forums but do not seem to be able to find the answer to my problem - although some of the replies have helped a bit.

I have a returned search form from a mysql query on which there is a link to add another entry. This link opens up an input form in a new window.

So far so good.

What I want to do now is that when the submit button is clicked the following happens:
1. The database is updated with the data fron the form - I can do this with <form method action> tag.
2. Close the pop up window.
3. Refresh the mysql query output.

Does anybody have any ideas on how to do this - preferably with some code examples?

bobthedog

Well - I aint gonna give you any code examples, but I will give you a bit of a pointer....

1, This is very basic PHP, and just requires you posting back to the page and capturing all the form data and saving to the database.

2, Javascript

3, Javascript

2 and 3 are both solved by writing out some Javascript on a successful page submission. You more or less want to do a window.opener.location.reload() and a window.close().

If you don't know much about JS, go find a good book on it )the O'Reilly series is pretty good), or you can probably find some sample scripts from javascript.com

cahva

Heres a javascript that I use to refresh when using frames:

function refresh(frame1,page1)
{
eval("parent."+frame1+".location='"+page1+"'");
}

With this u can add as much frames you need to refresh.

function refresh(frame1,page1,frame2,page2)
{
eval("parent."+frame1+".location='"+page1+"'");
eval("parent."+frame2+".location='"+page2+"'");
}

David_Wood

I am not using frames - will it still work?

cahva

Im not a javascript-guru but you could try it without frame like this:

function refresh(page1)
{
eval("parent.location='"+page1+"'");
}

I dont know if this works or not. Just try it and then you know!

Theres many ways to refresh page, I just dont remember. Just had a very rough weekend and destroyed too many braincells :-)