submiting form opens new window

CodeX

Hi,

Can someone please give me a clue on what would be the easiest way to make a page with a form which just asks for a name (text field) and their gender (radio button), then when the click on the submit button it opens a new window with the values passed to it.

This should be simple stuff, but I cant get anything to work even when I use [FONT=courier new]target="_blank"[/FONT].

Please help,
Charlie

CodeX

It's the opening a new page part that is the problem and passong the values to it. I can do it in pure HTML with an <A... link but dont know how to do it in PHP.

Thank you

PallaviDalvi

cud u post the code ur writing?
but from what i understand...when i need to post a form and open a new page, i'd do the following ..

<form name=frm method=post action=another_page.php>

and now in the file 'another_page.php' i can access the posted fields as
$POST['name'] and $POST['gender'] and so on...
the way u want to do it...ie using <a> is also possible...but for that i need ur code.

CodeX

Well thats it, you see, I dont have the code, the only think i have is where the PHP page posts back to itself using a hidden value to know that the form was already submitted.

I know that to pass the values to a new window I change the name of the file in the action element of the form tag, but how do I get it to open a NEW window?

Is this even possible without sending the user to a new page that then send them back and also opens the new window with the passed values?

Maybe I am not so much looking for code, but for a idea as to how to do it... though is anyone has already done this and is willing to save me some brain cycles - I honestly would appreciate it.

I started to get into PHP a couple of years back but then I had to focus on other matter (health wise) for a while and am now I hope to get back into it.

Again thank you PallaviDalvi for taking the time to respond.

Regards,
Charlie

CodeX

Hey would something liek this work...?

<form>
  <input...name="uname">
  <input...name="gender">
  ...
  <a href="some-page.php?uname=<? $uname ?>&gender=<? $gender ?>">SUBMIT</a>
</form>

Please dont so much focus on the HTML, but rather how I might do the PHP portions.

THank you again,

CodeX

I think that the variables ($uname, $gender) will still be NULL at this point so how can I get them to be loaded ready for the user to click the link?!?!?!?!

Anyway I'm gonna go and try it and see what comes of it

PallaviDalvi

ok if u HAVE to use a link to submit the form, then i wud do this...

<a href="#" onclick=do_submit();>SUBMIT</a>
[color=indigo]where[/color]
function do_submit()
{
	[color=purple]// i assume that the textboxes have ids as 'uname' and 'gender'.[/color]
	qry_str="some-page.php?uname=" + uname.value + "&gender=" + gender.value;
	window.open(qry_str);  [color=purple] // u can create the window style as u want[/color]
}

however i dont understand why u wud like to do this unless there is another submit button/link that submits to the form itself. what i mean is instead of passing a query string u cud very well say

 <form method=post action=some-page.php>

this wud save u a lot of trouble(of creating the query string) and POST method is always reliable for posting than the GET

CDragon

from the TOP of your page, BEFORE ANY HTML CODING AT ALL (ie, before the <html> tag or any other output / print statements):

if($HTTP_POST_VARS['submission_name']){
	header("Location: HTTP_DOMAIN_NAME_OR_ABSOLUTE_URL/?var1=".$HTTP_POST_VARS['var1']."&var2=".$HTTP_POST_VARS['var2']."&var3=".$HTTP_POST_VARS['var3']."#you_can_set_a_target_too!");
	exit;
}

Then, in your HTML:

Keep in mind, you can change these:

"submission_name", to identify your button's specific action from any other buttons you have.

"Button Display Name", for obvious reasons.

And all of the input for your form. As long as you keep the names of input values matched with those names in the header link at the top.

CodeX

Thanks CDragon, it took quite a while to get an answer close enough to what I was asking for. It's nice to see that some people read even the older messages.

Thanks again for responding!

Charlie

laserlight

hmm... if that works for you, then you can simplify the list of variables to $_SERVER['QUERY_STRING'].

CDragon

True, laserlight. But we should also keep in mind the character limit on GET transactions, and limit the query string to those variables you want to pass to avoid truncating the GET transaction before it reaches the variables he/she wants to pass.