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[nicc9]

hi, all.

i got a PHP script that I would like to run in a new window.

i got 2 different approaches:

1)

i'd have a link in window A.
user clicks on it, window B opens up.
user fills up a form on window B
window B closes
info from the form is passed to window A
info is processed
window A reloads, user sees new info

2)

in alternative, i'd just need window A to refresh immediately after window B closes.
i'd need like an event listener or something like that?

is there a way to do this?

i guess I should stick to the second approach as it's much simpler?

any suggestion much appreciated.

thanks a lot!!

[7stud]

window A reloads, user sees new info

What new info? How about an example?

[nicc9]

What new info? How about an example?

well, that isn't really the important part of my post

maybe I haven't explained myself well.

basically what I need is to make page A refresh using a script on page B, which is a new window created by clicking on a link on page A.

any idea ?

[7stud]

well, that isn't really the important part of my post

Actually, it's the most critical information to determine how to proceed. Make up an example, e.g. page A says Dog on it, and page B has one form field where if the user enters Cat and hits submit, then page B should subsequently close, and page A should display DogCat.

[Mirek Komárek]

basically what I need is to make page A refresh using a script on page B, which is a new window created by clicking on a link on page A.

Are you sure you need page B ?
Maybe you just need better php script, which write filled info after submiting. Like this here http://www.michaelpark.net/contact.php (there is source at bottom)

[nicc9]

Are you sure you need page B ?

i need it because page A has no room to add a form (which would be the content of page B.

so I thought I'd do it in a new window to keep things clean (not too cluttered).

any idea if there's a way to make page A refreash from page B?

thanks!

[Mirek Komárek]

I have here some old demo http://xy.wz.cz/spoluprace-oken/
it will open popup onload and when you check checkboxes in that popup, they will be checked in opener on unload, or when you close that popup.