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Jul 21.2005

I have a form where every entry has a button that when pressed generates a popup window that allows you to edit a field, which is then sumitted to a mysql database and the window is closed. However in the parent window the information that was submitted does not appear, because it has not recieved the data from the server and redisplayed. I was wondering if there was a way to say, onwindowclose submit, or something of the like. I think it would even work to refresh the parent window (rather than submitting the form) but I don’t know, generally if you refresh using post data it tells you, the world is going to end this form uses post data and you cannot refresh. I understand php and mysql pretty well but really have no clue with java. Please ask for clarification if I was unclear.

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@Mr_JJul 21.2005 — Have you tried

<BODY onunload="document.formName.submit()">
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@hwttdzauthorJul 21.2005 — Where can I find a document, sort of the equivalent of php.net explaining the syntax here. Because right now I feel like I'm not even guided enough to ask intelligent questions.
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@hwttdzauthorJul 21.2005 — I'm not sure I was clear enough. What I want to do is submit the parent window. So something along the lines of document.forms.formname.submit() of course that's not doing anything at all.
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@Mr_JJul 21.2005 — Try this little example

[code=php]<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Document Title</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY onunload="document.forms['testForm']['Submit'].click()">

<form name="testForm" onsubmit="alert(this.t1.value)">
<input type="text" name="t1" value="This is a test form">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" style="display:none">
</form>

</BODY>
</HTML>[/code]
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@hwttdzauthorJul 21.2005 — Is there a way to do this without using onunload and then also using submit() in place of this click()?
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@Mr_JJul 22.2005 — It might be wise to do a google search
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@hwttdzauthorJul 22.2005 — For future reference the solution that I came up with was: opener.document.forms.myform.submit();

Why would someone go through all the trouble of asking in a forum if it came up on google? Why would someone assume that someone else would have done the prior?
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@Mr_JJul 22.2005 — Sorry for wasting your time, I'd got it into my head that you wanted to submit the form when the parent page was closed and not the popup.
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