NYCPHP Meetup

[Adam Fields]

On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 10:57:59AM -0500, Jim Hendricks wrote:
> I'll have to try and find some of my source for this.  Don't get me wrong, I
> don't submit the one window to the other.  The submit button on the popup
> executes a java script which does:
> 
> opener.someform.somehiddenfield.value = mypopup.someform.sometextfield.value
> 
> for each field.  Then opener.someform.submit();

Two things about this:

1) You often won't want to hardcode the name of the form or the field
- you can pass these values to the popup window (via PHP) to make your
life easier. I randomly generate the name of every form (again, using
PHP) so I can do this using multiple forms and fields and every popup
knows which form and field it goes with.
 
2) As a point of interest, you can absolutely put the results of a
form in another window.

You can do this by setting the target attribute of the form, either
directly in the form tag or with javascript - it's a property of the
form object.

document.someform.target = 'formtargetwindow';

or some such. When you submit the form, the results will appear in
formtargetwindow.

-- 
				- Adam

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