[prog] Popup in PHP or Javascript

Tricia Bowen tricia.bowen at gmail.com
Tue Apr 11 00:51:52 EST 2006


Here is a link to a site that might have what you are looking for:
http://www.plus2net.com/javascript_tutorial/window-child3.php
--Tricia


On 4/9/06, Tiera <tiera at bredband.net> wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm not sure I understand what the actual chain of events that you
> > wish to occur are. Could you take a look at this list below and point
> > out where/if I'm misunderstanding?
> >
> > 1. user fills out form
> > 2. user clicks a button to POST data
> > 3. php script does some calculations and returns result
>
> Ok so far.
>
> > 4. result data is sent of to another php script for more calculation
> > 5. new pop-up window opens with result of second calculation
>
> The second php script should open in the pop-up. So step 4 and 5 should
> be:
>
> 4. result data is sent of to another php script that is opened in a
> pop-up window and displays the result there.
>
> > Questions:
> > What should happen with the existing (parent) window, i.e. is it
> > acceptable if that page reloads or must it remain static?
>
> It would be nice if it didn't reload, but if there absolutely is no
> other way I think reloading would work also.
>
> > Are you specifically trying to avoid Javascript?
>
> No. Javascript is fine also. I'm just not any good at Javascript.
>
> Thanks,
> Tiera
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