Javascript, PHP transferal problems

[sempuritoza]

well, hi there

ok this is a reall ugly one so listen carefully : I have a page A which select information from a database and then allows the user to edit this information, all good so far? Then once the person has finished editing the information I send the information to page B calling a javascript function :

function function_name(var_1)
{
var newWin=open(var_1,"","width=600,height=600");
}

var_1 contains the page name of page B and the id of which record to perform the UPDATE query using the $_POST variables.

Ok well now here is my problem, i want all of this to happen in the background and for the page A to refresh itself and show the updated details. I know that i will have to use Jscript to control all the window attributes but i dont know which Jscript functions to use.

And after alot of thinking i came to the conclusion that if you could call a php function through Jscript or manipulate your software to do something like this it would make life a lot easier, is there anyway to do this?

well, i hope someone can help me

[dbchip2000]

I would do it by making the form, and submitting it to page B, not via Javascript but just with the form tag something like

<form action="page_b.php?id=<? echo($_GET["id"]) ?>" method="post">

Then in your page_b, have all the updating of the database and then after it is updated do

header("Location: page_b.php?id=".$_GET["id"]);

which will take them back to the page with the new data. You may have to make sure the client browser doesn't cache it, but try it without the cache settings