open and close a window

[sheldonlg]

Does anyone know how to open a window and have it close by itself? You
may ask why, but here it is. I want to have it open (a php script), run
that script, and then close itself.

I have an application that is a huge AJAX framework app. There appears
to be some interaction between that and the mail sending software I
have. I want to send email with a file attached. The software I am
using for that is htmlMimeMail5 (php5). Since I know the parameters, I
simply want to run that php script outside of AJAX, but I don't want to
leave open windows. A quick blast open, send, close is OK.

I know that window.open opens the window and window.close closes it.

[Evertjan.]

Re: open and close a window

sheldonlg wrote on 11 jun 2008 in comp.lang.javas cript:

Does anyone know how to open a window and have it close by itself? You
may ask why, but here it is. I want to have it open (a php script), run
that script, and then close itself.
>
I have an application that is a huge AJAX framework app. There appears
to be some interaction between that and the mail sending software I
have. I want to send email with a file attached. The software I am
using for that is htmlMimeMail5 (php5). Since I know the parameters, I
simply want to run that php script outside of AJAX, but I don't want to
leave open windows. A quick blast open, send, close is OK.
>
I know that window.open opens the window and window.close closes it.

Why would you want a window?
You do not need any window to run a server script.

<http://www.jibbering.c om/faq/#FAQ4_34>

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Evertjan.
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[Dan Rumney]

Re: open and close a window

sheldonlg wrote:

Does anyone know how to open a window and have it close by itself? You
may ask why, but here it is. I want to have it open (a php script), run
that script, and then close itself.
>

Let's say you have a window A.

It could execute a script to open window B which is pointing at your PHP
script.

Once that PHP script is complete, it can serve a simple HTML page, which
includes a Javascript script to close itself.

But, that means that you have 2 windows, running 2 separate scripts. Not
a very elegant solution.

This task seems perfectly suited to AJAX. I'm surprised that you're
having 'interaction' issues between your AJAX framework and a back-end
PHP script.

It seems more likely that your AJAX framework is simply not sending all
the relevant detail to the PHP script...

[sheldonlg]

Re: open and close a window

Evertjan. wrote:

sheldonlg wrote on 11 jun 2008 in comp.lang.javas cript:
>

>Does anyone know how to open a window and have it close by itself? You
>may ask why, but here it is. I want to have it open (a php script), run
>that script, and then close itself.
>>
>I have an application that is a huge AJAX framework app. There appears
>to be some interaction between that and the mail sending software I
>have. I want to send email with a file attached. The software I am
>using for that is htmlMimeMail5 (php5). Since I know the parameters, I
>simply want to run that php script outside of AJAX, but I don't want to
>leave open windows. A quick blast open, send, close is OK.
>>
>I know that window.open opens the window and window.close closes it.

>
Why would you want a window?
You do not need any window to run a server script.
>
<http://www.jibbering.c om/faq/#FAQ4_34>
>

Thanks. That is what I was looking for. I didn't know this about
javascript (still learning js).

"You trigger a server-side script by setting any object's URL. For
example a frame, window, or an Image. An image will also "swallow" the
data sent back by the server, so that they will not be visible anywhere."

Thanks.

[sheldonlg]

Re: open and close a window

Dan Rumney wrote:

sheldonlg wrote:

>Does anyone know how to open a window and have it close by itself?
>You may ask why, but here it is. I want to have it open (a php
>script), run that script, and then close itself.
>>

>
Let's say you have a window A.
>
It could execute a script to open window B which is pointing at your PHP
script.
>
Once that PHP script is complete, it can serve a simple HTML page, which
includes a Javascript script to close itself.
>
But, that means that you have 2 windows, running 2 separate scripts. Not
a very elegant solution.
>
This task seems perfectly suited to AJAX. I'm surprised that you're
having 'interaction' issues between your AJAX framework and a back-end
PHP script.
>
It seems more likely that your AJAX framework is simply not sending all
the relevant detail to the PHP script...

The code for the email works fine when used in a straight php script. I
am guessing that it is the interaction. I know I had problems with the
interaction when I wanted to use code to write an Excel file. I got
around that by simply having the generator bypass the black box we use
for handling all the AJAX calls.