Displaying a modal dialog box...

rcarr

Is there a way to call a dialog box instead of displaying a window? I have a form that gets submitted. When the user presses submit I'd like to pop up a dialog saying "Changes Saved" and then include an Okay button. I'd rather not have the php script window that the form calls appear. It could be minimized and then closed, which would be fine.

Any way to do this? I've got a lot of windows that simply load and say changes saved. But it looks messy.

Thanks for the help.

dalecosp

Not sure I know exactly what you're getting at...you can 'popup' stuff with Javascript:

if ($_POST['submit'] {
echo '<script language=\"javascript\" type=\"text/javascript\">
<!--
alert(\"Changes have been saved...\")
--->
</script>';
}

---but, you are saying that changes have definitely been saved, cause you're doing it with PHP from the server, and testing the reception of at least one form item. It's gonna require that the server serve a page of some kind, is it not?

That's SS, there is no other way with PHP. If "things look messy", why not set up a script that is its own handler and have meaningful content in addition to status messages?

rcarr

If "things look messy", why not set up a script that is its own handler and have meaningful content in addition to status messages? [/B]

Thanks for the help dalecosp. Are you saying that I use one script to edit the data (in this case) and the same script is used to confirm the change was saved?

Thanks!

dalecosp

Originally posted by rcarr
Thanks for the help dalecosp. Are you saying that I use one script to edit the data (in this case) and the same script is used to confirm the change was saved?

Thanks!

Possibly/probably. I don't know exactly what your site is doing/saying, but it's an approach that I might try if I felt I was having the end-user load too many pages that were "procedurally informational" rather than containing "real content"....

rcarr

Gotcha. Okay, I'll check out that approach.

Thanks again.