Closing popup kills php session

[ryan]

Hello and sorry for the crosspost,

I have a php page that uses sessions. The page has a button that opens
a popup window. The popup window is itself a php page and also uses
the session. When I close the popup, I lose the session. Is there
anyway I can prevent the session from being dropped? Thanks!

~ryan

[Randy Webb]

ryan wrote:

Hello and sorry for the crosspost,

I have a php page that uses sessions. The page has a button that opens
a popup window. The popup window is itself a php page and also uses
the session. When I close the popup, I lose the session. Is there
anyway I can prevent the session from being dropped? Thanks!

Stop using popups? But its a PHP issue, not a JS issue.
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[Andrew Thompson]

On 3 Oct 2004 08:07:53 -0700, ryan wrote:

I have a php page that uses sessions. The page has a button that opens
a popup window.
Why a pop-up window?
..The popup window is itself a php page and also uses
the session. When I close the popup, I lose the session. Is there
anyway I can prevent the session from being dropped?

The natural thing to suggest is 'make your web-app
linear and dump the pop-up'.

As an aside, I suspect that c.l.php is the more appropriate
group for this*, but I will leave the cross-post as it is for
this reply.

* If your web-app cannot degrade gracefully to pure HTML,
it is either very unusual, or very broken.

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[ryan]

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On 3 Oct 2004 08:07:53 -0700, ryan wrote:

I have a php page that uses sessions. The page has a button that opens
a popup window.
Why a pop-up window?

This is for an intranet app, and the popup is to provide a printable
version of the content in the main window without the menu and page
header/footer. I think a popup is a more reasonable way to do this
than sending someone to a page with no nav.

..The popup window is itself a php page and also uses
the session. When I close the popup, I lose the session. Is there
anyway I can prevent the session from being dropped?

The natural thing to suggest is 'make your web-app
linear and dump the pop-up'.

As an aside, I suspect that c.l.php is the more appropriate
group for this*, but I will leave the cross-post as it is for
this reply.

* If your web-app cannot degrade gracefully to pure HTML,
it is either very unusual, or very broken.

What do you mean by this? Thanks very much for your reply, by the way.

~ryan

[Markus Ernst]

ryan wrote:
[...]

Why a pop-up window?

This is for an intranet app, and the popup is to provide a printable
version of the content in the main window without the menu and page
header/footer. I think a popup is a more reasonable way to do this
than sending someone to a page with no nav.

[...]

Write a separate CSS for media="print", and you are done without any popup
troubles, and without maintaining 2 separate versions of the page.

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Markus