retuning after posting a form

vaska

after i post a form to the database i want a pop-up window to close AND then have the parent window refresh itself...how do i do this?

i'm using this snippet of code, but since i have a popup it's not returning to parent...it's showing up really small in the popup window...

header("Location: http://www.rrrrrrrrrrrrrr.com/index.php");

i tried put a target tag in there, but that didn't help...

ideas? thanks...jv

planetsim

What you are trying to do is more of a client side issue. PHP can do so much. But as its a Server Side Language. Once its finished processsing the data on the Server and sends it back to be outputted to the client thats it.

PHP does no more.

Weedpacket

From your description I'm assuming that popup contains the form being submitted. I've never done anything like this before, but I figured perhaps you could add a target attribute to the form tag, saying which frame you want the response to appear in. Making it then disappear...two ways spring to mind, neither of which I'm certain will work. First, an onSubmit handler attached tothe form, which does a window.self.close() (or whatever the Javascript is), or an onload() handler in the response page that closes the popup. Either way it's more of a Javascript/HTML problem than a PHP one.

vaska

yes...i've tried a number of javascript/html ways to get this to work...no success yet...it's a tricky little thing...

i'll keep plugging away on this...

thanks for the comments...jv

autumn

try this:

function close_refresh()
{
window.opener.location='theparent.php';
window.close();
}

//-->
</script>

call that function onLoad. on the thank you/save dbase page.

basically it refreshes the parent window and closes the itself(popup).