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Posted by Shelly on 10/18/06 02:32
Thank you, Rik, very much. This worked.
Shelly
"Rik" <luiheidsgoeroe@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:34ace$45357051$8259c69c$20768@news2.tudelft.nl...
> Shelly wrote:
>> It didn't work. Several things:
>> 1 - I had the target for Aform be _self and for Bform be _blank since
>> it is in A form with the _self that the list exists.
>> 1 - The action path is "", even though you said you put one in. I
>> left it that way.
>> 2 - I assume you meant document.Bform.submit(); and not
>> document.Aform.submit();
>> 3 - If I made the change to Bform (above), then it opened a new window
>> (according to Bform), but it didn't pass the value of theList, even
>> though I have the B button in A form, and the page that is brought up
>> in that new window is the current page, not the redirected one.
>> Aform works fine. 4 - If I left it at Aform, it doesn't work either.
>>
>> Here is the code:
>> junk.php
>> ======
>> <?php
>> if (isset($_POST['A'])) {
>> $val = $_POST['theList'];
>> echo "A0=" . $val . "<br>";
>> } else if (isset($_POST['B'])) {
>> $val = $_POST['theList'];
>> header("Location: junk2.php?val=" . $val);
>> exit();
>> }
>
> Well, first of all:
> 1. Allthough AJAX is a nice buzzword, this has nothing to do with
> (a)synchronous calls with javascript to the server.
> 2. Are you absolutely sure you want to rely on javascript for this? In
> some
> browsers/for some users it will simply not work.
> 3. This should actually be in comp.lang.javascript
>
> But here you go:
> What I'd do, is have the buttons in the SAME form. Either that, or
> duplicate the selection list if you want a sturdy application.
>
> junk.php
> <?php
>
> if(isset($_POST['B']||isset($_POST['A'])){
> if(isset($_POST['B'])) echo 'You choose to open this a new window, but
> this is not possible without javascript enabled';
> $val = $_POST['theList'];
> echo "A0=" . $val . "<br>";
> }
> ?>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> function form_new_window(button){
> var form = button.form;
> form.action = './junk2.php';
> form.method = 'GET'; //or keep it a post
> form.target = '_blank'; //new window
> return true; //just to make sure.
> }
> </script>
> <form action="./junk.php" method="POST" target="_self">
> <select name="theList">
> <option value="First'">First </option>
> <option value="Second'">Second </option>
> </select>
> <input type="submit" value="Same window" name="A">
> <input type="submit" value="New window" name="B"
> onclick="form_new_window(this)">
> </form>
>
> --
> Rik Wasmus
>
>
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