[Resolved] Forms, popups and PHP

Manual

Greetings

I am not sure if this post is realy relevant here, for that I do appologize, at least I get good answers here. and I am not realy sure where this would actually be relevant ... 😃

I have an Inquiry form in a html document, when clicking the submit button I want two things to happen, execute the sendmail PHP script and open a popup window (on top of the Inquiry page) with something to the effect "Thank you for your interest. We will get back to you ASAP" displayed. Is this at all possible or can the submit button only be told to do one thing at a time?

Appreciating any help ....

bastien

you can do both...the popup is a js call to a new window which loads the html file "Thanks"

and the server can then process the form and send the email

hth

Manual

Hi Bastien

Ok, good ... heres the way I understand it the forms action tag gets linked to the php script to be executed, something like action="sendmail.php", this happens when clicking the "Submit" button. If I add a window.open javascript to the "Submit" button, it opens the sendmail.php in a full window and a popup window.

How would I let the form-Submit button combination, execute the PHP form and the JavaScript?

bastien

use the OnSubmit attribute of the form to fire a javascript function

<head>
<script language="javascript">
var aURL;
function opener(aURL,title,width=200,height=400, screenX, screenY){
   window.open(aURL);
}

</script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="somepage.php" method="post" onSubmit="opener("thanks.html");">

//rest of form

maxpup979

Simply for correctness, you might wish to pop the window AFTER you have verified that the form has been processed correctly--that way you can also throw an error if there is a problem

Manual

I'm sorry guys ....
I simply don't seem able to grasp this .... overworked I suppose ...

aURL where should this URL point to? The thanks.html, I assume, when I do that I get a runtime error ....
😕 😕 😕

stew

at the top of the sendmail.php file (ie the action of the form), you could then, once the form has been correctly processed, opne up the javascript window, as bastien suggested.

so the javascript in bastiens post would popup once the email has been sent and not just once the form is submited.

Manual

Ok I think I did it ...

... here the javaScript...

function openWindow(theURL,winName,features) { //v2.0
  window.open(theURL,winName,features);
}

.... and the funktion

onSubmit="openWindow('thanks.htm','','width=300,height=200')"

thanks so much for the help and hints. Much appreciated!
🙂