Re: popups, parents, parameters, and php

my colleague just suggested that my popup, on the form submit, can call another page which just registers the items selected as session variables. This seems like a good idea. Of course, I will have to reload the original calling page, edit.php, so it can check those session varibles and amend the select1 list. I am going to try this, but I would still greatly appreciate any advice. Thanks, Rich "Rich Fox" <rfox@esops.com> > I have been asking specific questions, and getting helpful answers, but I > realized I am getting ahead of myself and thinking about the trees when I > don't see the forest yet. I would like to describe what it is I want to do > in general, and then hopefully you can point me in the right direction so I > use html, php, and javascript together in some kind of reasonable way. I > feel like I am re-inventing the wheel, and badly. What I want to do must > have been done a zillion times by other web programmers already. > > I have a php page (edit.php) with a form with some text fields and a select > menu (select1). I want users to be able to add entries to the select1 menu, > and would like to use a popup window to do this. In the popup window, the > user is presented with a form with a select menu of all possible entries. > The user can make multiple selections from this list in the popup, and when > the popup's form is submitted, I want the select1 menu in edit.php to > reflect these additional entries selected from the popup. > > Those are the requirements. Should be easy, but I am finding it very > difficult to tie the pieces together. > > Any advice or url of a relevant tutorial would be greatly appreciated. > Thanks, > > Rich