Closing popup kills php session

[ryan]

Hello and sorry for the crosspost,

I have a php page that uses sessions. The page has a button that opens
a popup window. The popup window is itself a php page and also uses
the session. When I close the popup, I lose the session. Is there
anyway I can prevent the session from being dropped? Thanks!

~ryan

[Randy Webb]

Re: Closing popup kills php session

ryan wrote:[color=blue]
> Hello and sorry for the crosspost,
>
> I have a php page that uses sessions. The page has a button that opens
> a popup window. The popup window is itself a php page and also uses
> the session. When I close the popup, I lose the session. Is there
> anyway I can prevent the session from being dropped? Thanks![/color]

Stop using popups? But its a PHP issue, not a JS issue.


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[Andrew Thompson]

Re: Closing popup kills php session

On 3 Oct 2004 08:07:53 -0700, ryan wrote:
[color=blue]
> I have a php page that uses sessions. The page has a button that opens
> a popup window.[/color]

Why a pop-up window?
[color=blue]
>..The popup window is itself a php page and also uses
> the session. When I close the popup, I lose the session. Is there
> anyway I can prevent the session from being dropped?[/color]

The natural thing to suggest is 'make your web-app
linear and dump the pop-up'.

As an aside, I suspect that c.l.php is the more appropriate
group for this*, but I will leave the cross-post as it is for
this reply.

* If your web-app cannot degrade gracefully to pure HTML,
it is either very unusual, or very broken.

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[ryan]

Re: Closing popup kills php session

Andrew Thompson <SeeMySites@www .invalid> wrote in message news:<327dwqgml cr5$.1jg02j1alm m33$.dlg@40tude .net>...[color=blue]
> On 3 Oct 2004 08:07:53 -0700, ryan wrote:
>[color=green]
> > I have a php page that uses sessions. The page has a button that opens
> > a popup window.[/color]
>
> Why a pop-up window?[/color]

This is for an intranet app, and the popup is to provide a printable
version of the content in the main window without the menu and page
header/footer. I think a popup is a more reasonable way to do this
than sending someone to a page with no nav.
[color=blue]
>[color=green]
> >..The popup window is itself a php page and also uses
> > the session. When I close the popup, I lose the session. Is there
> > anyway I can prevent the session from being dropped?[/color]
>
> The natural thing to suggest is 'make your web-app
> linear and dump the pop-up'.
>
> As an aside, I suspect that c.l.php is the more appropriate
> group for this*, but I will leave the cross-post as it is for
> this reply.
>
> * If your web-app cannot degrade gracefully to pure HTML,
> it is either very unusual, or very broken.[/color]

What do you mean by this? Thanks very much for your reply, by the way.

~ryan

[Markus Ernst]

Re: Closing popup kills php session

ryan wrote:
[...][color=blue][color=green]
>> Why a pop-up window?[/color]
>
> This is for an intranet app, and the popup is to provide a printable
> version of the content in the main window without the menu and page
> header/footer. I think a popup is a more reasonable way to do this
> than sending someone to a page with no nav.[/color]
[...]

Write a separate CSS for media="print", and you are done without any popup
troubles, and without maintaining 2 separate versions of the page.

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