php communication, string insert

[masterens]

Hi everyone

 

this time I want to do something everyone here knows it is possible: when posting a message at a forum you can press buttons and text appears at your pointer.

Now that is not exactly what I want to do. at some forum sites (not phpfreaks) when pressing a button while posting you get a popup with buttons which make things appear in the not popup-window. that is exactly what I need to do. This is not about posting messages, btw, but a list of contacts of which you can select 2 in a popup.

 

any ideas? any help is appreciated

[monkeytooth]

Parent window and Child window is something you want to work with, eventually you'll end up with something like..

 

to open the Child window you would use something like:

 

Code to open window

function openChild(file,window) {
    childWindow=open(file,window,'width=300,height=216,scrollbars=no,left=377,top=120,screenX=377,screenY=120');
    if (childWindow.opener == null) childWindow.opener = self;
}

 

What to use with the function above to open the window

<a href="#" onClick="javascript:openChild('newwindow.php','mywin');">Open</a>

 

What you would use within the open window to link back to the parent window

<a href="#" onClick="javascript:opener.document.myFormName.FormElementName.value = 'yourChosenValue';self.close();return false;">Text Image Whatever</a>

 

Of course this is a javascript solution and not a PHP solution. Generally speaking in a case like what you describe your looking for javascript rather than php