JavaScript: Returning text from popup to parent

lanshaft

Hello All...

Thanks in advance for your help...
Here is my problem I am opening a popup window like this:

<input type="submit" onclick="additem('additems.php?sid=<? echo $sid ?>&orderid=<? echo $orderid ?>')" value="Add Item(s)">

This opens the window perfectly however I need to be able to click a button in the popup sending back to the parent window data. Then once the data is received add information to the db...

Popup Example:
<tr bgcolor="#eeeeee">
<td align="center"><? echo $a[item_name]; ?></td>
<td align="center"><? echo $a[part_number]; ?></td>
<td align="center"><? echo $a[shortdesc]; ?></td>
<td align="center"><input type="text" size="2" name="qty" value="1"></td>
<td align="center"><input type="text" size="8" name="price" value="<? echo $a2[price] ?>"></td>
<td align="center"><input type="submit" name="additem" value="Add Item"></td>
</tr>

Parent Example:
if($additem) {
Blah Blah Blah
}

Here is a bit of code I have seen and it may work but I need help understanding it. I am not a javascript pro 🙂

Example:
<INPUT TYPE="BUTTON" VALUE="Add Item"
ONCLICK="window.opener.invoice.add_itemID.value='<? echo $a[IDitem]; ?>';
window.opener.invoice.add_name.value='<? echo ereg_replace("\"","",$a[name]); echo ereg_replace("\"","",$a[short_description]); echo ereg_replace("\"","",$a[store_part_num]); ?>';
window.opener.invoice.add_qty.value=this.form.aqty.value;
window.opener.invoice.add_unitprice.value=this.form.uprice.value;
window.opener.invoice.submit(); ">

THANKS JARED

devinemke

make the action tag of the form on the popup page refer back to the mainpage and add target="opener" to the form tag:

this will send the focus back to the mainpage (with all of the POSTed data) and close the popup. then simply write some conditional logic on the mainpage to insert the POST varibales into the db, if $submit == 'whatever the name of the submit button on the popup page"

lanshaft

Dave thanks for your help however this opens a new window it does not pass back to the parent??? Any suggestions. Thanks Jared

lanshaft

I meant Devin. Sorry

devinemke

lets back up here a minute. look at this example, i have two files:
"main.php" and "pop_up.php"

main.php

<html>
<head>
<title>main</title>
<script language="javascript">

function launch (url)
{
self.name = "opener";
remote = open(url, "remote", "resizable,scrollbars,width=300,height=300,left=300,top=200");
}

</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">

<?
if (!isset ($_POST['submit'])) {echo '<a href="javascript:launch(\'pop_up.php\')">click here for a popup form</a>';}
if (isset ($_POST['submit'])) {echo 'The name you submitted is: <b>' . $_POST['name'] . '</b>';}
?>

</body>
</html>

and here is pop_up.php

<html>
<head>
<title>popup</title>
</head>
<body bgcolor="white">

hello, this is a popup window<br>
please fill out this form:
<br>
<br>
<form action="main.php" method="post" target="opener" onsubmit="window.close ()">
name: <input type="text" name="name">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</form>

</body>
</html>

if these two files reside in the same directory everything should work. this is a simple example but you get the idea.

lanshaft

Cool that kinda worked but it is enough for me to complete it...
I did not have the "self.name="opener";" line....

THANKS