Re: Passing Form Values

On Tuesday, June 25, 2002, at 06:56 PM, Phillip S. Baker wrote:

When the form is submitted I want to values passed to a pop-up window. I am aware of the need for Javascript for the pop-up window, but how do I get the values from the form passed to the new window so I can use them in further scripts. I can write the javascript to do the popup window and use the onSubmit command, but I cannot figure out how to pass the values with a regular submit button. Thanks

Pass them along the querystring, so that when the JavaScript popup window opens and it goes to a certain page, those values are part of that URL. As GET variables. // Your PHP vars: $var1 = 'Metroid'; $var2 = 'Metal Gear'; // Create a querystring: $PHPqueryString = "var1=" . $var1 . "&var2=" . $var2; // echo the browser string for the popup: print "<a href=\"\" onclick=\"openPopup(" . $PHPqueryString . "\">Popup!</a>\n"; // here's your JavaScript function function openPopup(queryString) { var detailwindow = window.open('./target.php?' + queryString, 'windowname', 'toolbar=no,directories=no, status=no,menubar=no,resizable=yes, copyhistory=no,scrollbars=yes, width=500,height=300'); detailwindow.moveTo('150', '150'); } Now in your new script you can access these GET vars from PHP or from JS! Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown pricee@hhbrown.com