how to get values of checkboxes from a pop up window to the main window

[watusiboy]

i will implement an email program. as any other email program, the user can send messages to multiple contacts. i'm planning to implement this through an address book which will pop up and display all the contacts of the person. this popup window containts checkboxes of the contacts. the user can check multiple check boxes. once finished, the pop up closes.
what i want to do is to retrieve the value of the checked check boxes in the main window. is there a way to do this in PHP or javaScript.

[nathj]

i will implement an email program. as any other email program, the user can send messages to multiple contacts. i'm planning to implement this through an address book which will pop up and display all the contacts of the person. this popup window containts checkboxes of the contacts. the user can check multiple check boxes. once finished, the pop up closes.
what i want to do is to retrieve the value of the checked check boxes in the main window. is there a way to do this in PHP or javaScript.

Hi,

I've never done this myself but could you load the information to $_SESSION? So when the user closes the popup it first puts into the session the ID of the emails that were checked and then closes the window. You can the use the $_SESSION on the main page to retreive the ID's and therefore the email addresses.

It's just a guess, I've not done it myself.

Cheers
nathj

[Purple]

Hi you are quite right, you could do this with either javascript or PHP (with some javascript),

Coding in a language you are comfortable would be a good idea, which do you know ?

Purple