Posting data to a specific window

Anon

Hi all,

I have two php pages. One page (lets call it main.php) fetches data from a database. If you want to update the data, you click on a link and a popoup window appears with forms to update.
On submission of the form, the popup closes and the form details are posted to main.php - so it refreshes and pulls back the modified data.

I have managed to do this by naming the window in main.php using javascript, and setting the target of the form to that name.

This all works fine and dandy in IE, but in Netscape nothing happens except the popup closes.

Can anybody help??

Thanks...

matto

I encountered the same trouble, so I had the popup script process the data. (<form action=<?=$PHP_SELF ?>>)

Finally, the popup window says 'Thanks for your input' and offers a link 'close window'.

on click (or on window close), the main window should be reloaded. this works only in ie.

so I didn't find a complete solution but at least the data is being processed.

does anyone have a better solution?

Anon

Hey, how's it going?

In your popup, using window.close or whatever is fine. But, you don't need to name your main.php window. It already has a name once it opens the popup. It is automatically called 'opener'. So you could set the target of the form to 'opener' (i think that should work) and the form will be posted. I'm not sure it works in Netscape. Tell me if all goes well.

Mark 😉

Anon

Mark,

I have figured out what netscape doesn't like.

Netscape closes the window before it posts any of the data, whereas IE posts THEN closes.

I have form validation javascript which returns a value 'true' if the required fields are filled in - so I have tried to put the window.close statement after the true value is returned, but this does not work. I am going to try another way - I shall post back if I find a solution...

Anon

I have sorted this problem out now:

I have a form validation script that I call check_all_fields, so in the form tag I have "OnSubmit='return check_all_fields();'" Check_all_fields is shown below, and if you look at the line above the return true statement you will see that I have set a timeout of one second, then a redirect to another page.

function check_all_fields() {
if (trim(document.add.docname.value) == "")
{
alert ("You need to enter a document Name");
document.add.docname.focus();
return false;
}

	if (trim(document.add.docurl.value) == "")
{
	alert ("You need to enter an associating document URL");
	document.add.docurl.focus();
	return false;
}	
setTimeout("location.href='closewin.html'" , 1000)
return true;

}

NB trim is another function!

That other page is empty, only contains this code in the body tag: "onLoad = 'window.close()';"

I tried to get the timeout to close the window initially, but that didn't work, so I had to use the redirect.

I'm pretty sure there is another method - If anybody has a simpler one, please post.

Cheers