Need help with search form

seabird

Hi everyone,

can I make a search form write the result to a temp database and (with the same click) go to a page requesting the result out of the temp DB?

The reason I want to do this is, because I load my pages externally into a layer. To keep my results from disregarding this, I need this solution.

So 1 click has to do both actions.

Jacco

jeremuck

well I'm not sure why you need to store the results in a tmp table,
but anyway, yes, you can do it all in one click.

Search form page: user enters data, hits "submit" or whatever.

This takes the user to the new page.
The new page can process things before outputting... (otherwise, what's the point).
You can store the results in a tmp database, do other stuff, look up the stuff in your tmp, and then spit it out anyway you want.

maybe I misunderstood or something, but there's no reason you can't do it all in the same page.

seabird

See, that's where the problem comes in. I know it can go to a new page and come up with the results. But by doing that, My page comes outside it's layer. I wanna force everything within the layer (DHTML)

So what I want, is to submit the data-search, without leaving my form. If I can do that... I can (with the same click) externally load a page (into the layer) pulling up the results. (that's why I want to have a temporary DB table). After having retrieved the answers I can just flush my temp. table.

So what I want to know is... can I dump results into a temp. table, without leaving me page, and with that same click, externally load a page into my layer???

Jacco

jeremuck

not with PHP.

send the form to itself...

that way you can piece the whole thing back together again.

Otherwise, use javascript.