self closing

[Rainman]

I didn't find the answer in the FAQ at php.net...

I have a button on parent.php that launches a page (child.php) in a new
window. Child.php does some database activity and is silent (unless
there is an error). I want this child.php to close itself if there are
no errors. How can I do this?

Mark

[Karl Groves]

Rainman <na**@yourdomain.com> wrote in news:GDyUf.36085$g91.27014
@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com:

I didn't find the answer in the FAQ at php.net...

I have a button on parent.php that launches a page (child.php) in a new
window. Child.php does some database activity and is silent (unless
there is an error). I want this child.php to close itself if there are
no errors. How can I do this?

PHP cannot close windows.
However, you can use PHP to conditionally write javascript to do it.
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[Treefrog]

Karl Groves wrote:

Rainman <na**@yourdomain.com> wrote in news:GDyUf.36085$g91.27014
@tornado.ohiordc.rr.com:

I didn't find the answer in the FAQ at php.net...

I have a button on parent.php that launches a page (child.php) in a new
window. Child.php does some database activity and is silent (unless
there is an error). I want this child.php to close itself if there are
no errors. How can I do this?

PHP cannot close windows.

Said Javascript would look like

<script language="Javascript">
window.close();
</script>

or,

echo "<script language=\"Javascript\">";
echo " window.close();";
echo "</script>";
or do this and wait until the user gets bored and closes the browser
themselves, or IE crashes.

while (true)
{
echo "x";
}

[blackghost]

I think, it could be better if you just go to the child.php, do your
database activity and, if done, return with a header(Location : '') to
the parent.php

While your page has no output data, you don't really have to open it in
a new window.