I have a page "viewclient.php" when this page upens there are 6 buttons... One is "Insert Note": When this button is clicked I want to open a new window on top, once the info is entered and "Save" is clicked I want the window to disappear and the original page to refresh itself to update the inserted note.

Can anyone help me with this??

i would suggest using JavaScript for this one. i wanted to try something like that but as far as i can tell, it only really works with links not buttons. as for the java, i'm not very good (been trying to stick to PHP).

you could do a php popup page were when the button is click a page opens like a popup the it can have a feild on were the msg is typed in then click button save that button would have to add the text to a database then clocse the window and some how make the window that was first used refresh then it can collect the info from the database to show it

sounds like alot of work for a msg to show

try using a wizard-based interface and use sessions to collect and process the data. that would be the easiest way of doing things.

would you be able to show a quick little example of how to use a session for this? I have never used sessions before.

Thanks.

first off start the session by using the code below. This code MUST be placed at the very top of the page and MUST be present in every page you use to collect/present data.

PHP Code:

session_start(); // starts the session
header("Cache-control: private"); // fix for IE 6 


For the wizard process, you will need to use headers to redirect the user to the required pages. Using conditional statements will be the best way to go.

PHP Code:

if(isset($newnote)) {
header("Location: newnote.php")
} 


Then just use HTML or PHP to display a text box and press another button to return to the original page with the data intact i.e. using an echo statement.

To destroy the session, use the following code:

PHP Code:

$_SESSION = array();
session_destroy();
header("Location: http://www.mydomain.com/");