Re: Open form in new window

On Mar 4, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Paul M Foster <paulf@quillandmouse.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 05:39:00PM +0000, Tim Streater wrote: > >> On 04 Mar 2013 at 17:10, John Taylor-Johnston >> <John.Taylor-Johnston@cegepsherbrooke.qc.ca> wrote: >> >>> <button type="button" >>> onclick="OpenWindow()">Submit</button> will not >>> submit the form contents. >> >> Nothing to stop your OpenWindow() function doing a submit as in: >> >> <button type="button" >> onclick="OpenWindow(this.form)">Submit</button> >> >> >> function OpenWindow (formPtr) >> { >> >> // Some actions >> >> formPtr.submit (); >> >> } >> >> > >> Personally I never submit forms. I use ajax to communicate with PHP >> scripts and do something with the data that is returned by the script. >> You can see a simple example at http://www.clothears.org.uk > > -- >> Cheers -- Tim >> > > I'm trying to figure out where the net gain in that is. The PHP file > being called via AJAX is doing its processing on the server either way. > So it appears the only difference is an asynchronous Javascript/AJAX > call or a synchronous PHP call (on a standard PHP form submission). What > am I missing? > > Paul > Yes, I agree with Paul -- how about an example? That way we can see what you are trying to do. You see, I use ajax all the time to send all sorts of things to the server without refresh, but I am at a lost to figure out what you are doing. Cheers, tedd