Re: [PHP] Re: Open form in new window
[email protected] (Paul M Foster)
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On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 05:39:00PM +0000, Tim Streater wrote: > On 04 Mar 2013 at 17:10, John Taylor-Johnston <[email protected]> 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 -- Paul M. Foster http://noferblatz.com http://quillandmouse.com