PHP and Forms

berbbrown

I have a PHP page which provides a list of users. When clicking a hyperlink, I pop up a page which retrieves the data from a MySQL database and displays it on the form.

My questions:

When clicking the submit button how can I close the form if ONLY successful in the update, else, keep the form open until they fix there mistakes?
Refresh the form behind to show a change to the list of users.

Please Help.

Many Thanks

thoand

Try this:

in the top of your pop up document that shal close the window:

do the query and then do a check if it was successful,
after the </head>
eg.

if (successfull) {
//if the operation was successfull, send message back to the opener document and close this one.
echo "<body onLoad="JavaScript: opener.location.href='opener_doc.php?action=update'; self.close();">
}
else {
//if it fails do some output to the user.
echo "<body>";
echo "Error message to the user";
}

if the opener window is part of a frame set, use:

opener.parent.frameName.location.href='';

good luck.

regards Thomas A.