Yes/No Popup window

"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex.RemoveThis@attglobal.net> wrote in message
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 > All,
 >
 > I have something a little different here 0 but I'm sure you guys can
 > help me out.
 >
 > I need to open a popup window - and get the response. The window will
 > be something like:
 >
 > "Warning - This will delete all items in your database."
 > "Are you sure you want to do this?"
 >
 > With Yes and No pushbuttons.
 >
 > Then I need to get the results back in the window which called the popup
 > (using PHP).
 >
 > Basically - this is an "Admin" screen - so it's not available to the
 > general public (protected directory).
 >
 > I know I could do it by opening one window in the browser with the
 > information, then have it go to another window. However, I'd much
 > rather do it with a popup, similar to one to enter your password when
 > accessing a protected directory.
 >
 > Does anyone have any snippets to show how to do this?

I suppose it could be done with JavaScript, for example:

<FORM NAME="frmDelete" ACTION="delete.php">
....
....
</FORM>
<SCRIPT>
if (confirm("Are you sure?"))
frmDelete.submit()
</SCRIPT>

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Jerry Stuckle wrote:

 > All,
 >
 > I have something a little different here 0 but I'm sure you guys can
 > help me out.
 >
 > I need to open a popup window - and get the response. The window will
 > be something like:
 >
 > "Warning - This will delete all items in your database."
 > "Are you sure you want to do this?"
 >
 > With Yes and No pushbuttons.
 >
 > Then I need to get the results back in the window which called the popup
 > (using PHP).
 >
 > Basically - this is an "Admin" screen - so it's not available to the
 > general public (protected directory).
 >
 > I know I could do it by opening one window in the browser with the
 > information, then have it go to another window. However, I'd much
 > rather do it with a popup, similar to one to enter your password when
 > accessing a protected directory.
 >
 > Does anyone have any snippets to show how to do this?

OK, going with the popup for a minute, you should be able to use the
form's target attribute (transitional DTD only) to point the popup back
to the parent page.

The only problem with just having:
<form action="delete.php" method="post" target="_parent">
<input type="submit" value="Yes"><br>
<input type="submit" value="No">
</form>

Is that you would lose any other variables in delete.php. You can get
around this by either making those variables session variables, so that
they remain available, or if the popup is loaded from a form:

<!-- form in initial page to open popup -->
<form action="confirm.php" method="post" target="popupname">
<input type="hidden" name="blah" value="blah">
etc
<input type="submit" value="Delete">
</form>

And then:
<!-- form in popup -->
<form action="delete.php" method="post" target="_parent">
<?php

foreach ($_POST as $key => $var) {
echo "<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"" . $key . "\" value=\"" . $var
.. "\">";
}
?>
<input type="radio" name="confirmation" value="Yes"><br>
<input type="radio" name="confirmation" value="No" checked="checked">
<input type="submit" name="go" value="Proceed">
</form>

The similar thing can be done with a get. However, this is a less secure
method as it outputs your variables to the page (twice, even though they
are hidden) and so someone could maliciously use them. I don't know how
important this is for your page, and using the $_POST makes it more
difficult for these variables to be then fiddled with and put back into
your form, but this certainly falls into the hack category. I would
recommend using a session and making everything session variables. There
are plenty of tutes out there, and some fairly good ones at
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.phpgeek.com" target="_blank">http://www.phpgeek.com</a> and <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.phpbuilder.com" target="_blank">http://www.phpbuilder.com</a><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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Yeah, I guess you're right.

 > Top posting can make things confusing.

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"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex.TakeThisOut@attglobal.net> wrote
 > All,
 >
 > I have something a little different here 0 but I'm sure you guys can
 > help me out.
 >
 > I need to open a popup window - and get the response. The window will
 > be something like:
 >
 > "Warning - This will delete all items in your database."
 > "Are you sure you want to do this?"
 >
 > With Yes and No pushbuttons.
 >
 > Then I need to get the results back in the window which called the popup
 > (using PHP).
 >
 > Basically - this is an "Admin" screen - so it's not available to the
 > general public (protected directory).
 >
 > I know I could do it by opening one window in the browser with the
 > information, then have it go to another window. However, I'd much
 > rather do it with a popup, similar to one to enter your password when
 > accessing a protected directory.
 >
 > Does anyone have any snippets to show how to do this?
 >
 > TIA.
 >

This is one, found another command that uses
opener.document.outputForm.msgLine.value = "hello"
that can refer to the parent window.

Be a good use for my text buttons from last week...
This one below uses window.showModalDialog instead of window.open

Herc


<html>
<head>
<title>Parent</title>

<script language = JavaScript>

function doopen() {
localvar = 7
document.form1.textbox.value = window.showModalDialog("dlg.html", localvar)
}

</script>

</head>

<body>

<form name = form1>
<br>
<input type=button value="Open window" onclick="doopen()">
<br>
<input type=text name="textbox" size = 30>
</form>
</body>

</html>



************************************


<html>
<head>
<title>Dialog</title>

<script language = JavaScript>

function okbutton() {
//alert("here") use dialogArguments to read the parameter
window.returnValue = "true"
window.close()
}

function cancelbutton() {
window.returnValue = "false"
window.close()
}

</script>

</head>

<body>
<form name = form1>
<br>
<input type=button value=" OK " onclick="okbutton()">

<input type=button value="Cancel" onclick="cancelbutton()">
</form>
</body>

</html><!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex.TakeThisOut@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:3F872BAC.57C5@attglobal.net...
 > All,
 >
 > I have something a little different here 0 but I'm sure you guys can
 > help me out.
 >
 > I need to open a popup window - and get the response. The window will
 > be something like:
 >
 > "Warning - This will delete all items in your database."
 > "Are you sure you want to do this?"
 >
 > With Yes and No pushbuttons.
 >
 > Then I need to get the results back in the window which called the popup
 > (using PHP).
 >
 > Basically - this is an "Admin" screen - so it's not available to the
 > general public (protected directory).
 >
 > I know I could do it by opening one window in the browser with the
 > information, then have it go to another window. However, I'd much
 > rather do it with a popup, similar to one to enter your password when
 > accessing a protected directory.
 >
 > Does anyone have any snippets to show how to do this?
 >
 > TIA.
 >

I do it like this. In <head></head> you would have this:

<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
function confirmDelete(delMake, delID) {
if (confirm("Are you sure you want to delete \n'" + delMake + "' from the
database?")) {
document.location = "myfile.php or asp?action=delete&ID=" + delID;
}
}
</SCRIPT>

Then this to trigger the delete:

<input type="radio" name="action"
onClick="confirmDelete('<%=dbVar1%>','<%=dbVar2%>');" value="<%=dbVarID%>"
title="Delete <%=dbVar1%>">

Hope this helps

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"Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex.TakeThisOut@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:3F872BAC.57C5@attglobal.net...
 > All,
 >
 > I have something a little different here 0 but I'm sure you guys can
 > help me out.
 >
 > I need to open a popup window - and get the response. The window will
 > be something like:
 >
 > "Warning - This will delete all items in your database."
 > "Are you sure you want to do this?"
 >
 > With Yes and No pushbuttons.
 >
 > Then I need to get the results back in the window which called the popup
 > (using PHP).
 >
 > Basically - this is an "Admin" screen - so it's not available to the
 > general public (protected directory).
 >
 > I know I could do it by opening one window in the browser with the
 > information, then have it go to another window. However, I'd much
 > rather do it with a popup, similar to one to enter your password when
 > accessing a protected directory.
 >
 > Does anyone have any snippets to show how to do this?
 >
 > TIA.
 >
2nd Try:

I do it like this. In <head></head> you would have this:

<SCRIPT type="text/javascript">
function confirmDelete(delMake, delID) {
if (confirm("Are you sure you want to delete \n'" + delMake + "' from the
database?")) {
document.location = "myfile.php or asp?action=delete&ID=" + delID;
}
}
</SCRIPT>

Then this to trigger the delete:

<input type="radio" name="action"
onClick="confirmDelete('<%=dbVar1%>','<%=dbVar2%>');" value="<%=dbVarID%>"
title="Delete <%=dbVar1%>">

Hope this helps

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All,

Thanks for the tips. I now have it working with Javascript - and it's
doing great.

Once I get things more completed, I'll be posting the URL for a review.

Thanks again - I knew I could count on y'all!

Jerry

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"Charles Sweeney" <me.TakeThisOut@charlessweeney.com> wrote in message news:<bm7bbs$jsm40$1@ID-162618.news.uni-berlin.de>...
 > "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex.TakeThisOut@attglobal.net> wrote in message
 > news:3F872BAC.57C5@attglobal.net...
  > > All,
  > >
  > > I have something a little different here 0 but I'm sure you guys can
  > > help me out.
  > >
  > > I need to open a popup window - and get the response. The window will
  > > be something like:
  > >
  > > "Warning - This will delete all items in your database."
  > > "Are you sure you want to do this?"
  > >
  > > With Yes and No pushbuttons.
  > >
  > > Then I need to get the results back in the window which called the popup
  > > (using PHP).
  > >
  > > Basically - this is an "Admin" screen - so it's not available to the
  > > general public (protected directory).
  > >
  > > I know I could do it by opening one window in the browser with the
  > > information, then have it go to another window. However, I'd much
  > > rather do it with a popup, similar to one to enter your password when
  > > accessing a protected directory.
  > >
  > > Does anyone have any snippets to show how to do this?
 >
 > I do a similar thing on one of my sites. It's not a pop-up as such, it's
 > just a webpage that says "are you sure you want to delete this" with two
 > buttons, "yes" and "no".
 >
 > The page is two forms, each with a submit button. When the answer is
 > posted, the output is processed accordingly.
 >
 > I can't show you the script because it is way too specific to my site, but
 > perhaps you should just think about the page and yes/no form buttons option.
 >
 > This is the code for the buttons:
 >
 > <input type="submit" value="Yes">
 > <input type="submit" value="No">
 >
 > If the user clicks "Yes" it posts back to itself and runs the code to delete
 > the files.
 >
 > If the user clicks "No" they get taken back to the previous page. I use
 > javascript for this in the form tag (yes I know!) thus:
 >
 > action="javascript:history.go(-1);"
 >
 > I have the quotes escaped, but didn't show it here for clarity.

I agree with Charles. It might be easier to have an intermediary
website asking Yes or No then an actual pop-up window. Also, we have
some vendor software that does these pop-ups, and programs like Pop-up
Killer stop the windows from appearing. Leades to lots of problems
and can cause a confirmation when you didn't mean one.

Just an FYI,

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Alex wrote:
 >
 >
 > I agree with Charles. It might be easier to have an intermediary
 > website asking Yes or No then an actual pop-up window. Also, we have
 > some vendor software that does these pop-ups, and programs like Pop-up
 > Killer stop the windows from appearing. Leades to lots of problems
 > and can cause a confirmation when you didn't mean one.
 >
 > Just an FYI,
 >
 > Alex.


Alex,

As I said in my first message - this goes into some admin pages which
are not available to the general public. Access is controlled, so this
is not a problem.

I have the popups running - and they're working just like I need.

Thanks.

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