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Hi,

I hope someone might be able to set me straight on how to handle the
situation described below.

I have a page that has an email field for user input and 2 radio buttons
(subscribe + unsubscribe) for signing up to a mailing list. What I would
like to have happen is the following:
The user enters an email and presses the submit button.
At this point a new window opens (I would like to be able to specify size,
etc rather than use _blank) to process the submission and return a reponse
(succeeded, already subscribed, etc). The user would then close the window
by clicking on a 'close' link in the new window.
I would also like the form data cleared, so the user doesn't think the
submission didn't work, despite seeing the confirmation window.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Scott

Scott <> wrote:
> What I would like to have happen is the following:
> The user enters an email and presses the submit button.
> At this point a new window opens (I would like to be able to specify
> size, etc rather than use _blank) to process the submission and
> return a reponse (succeeded, already subscribed, etc).

Couldn't you just have the form direct the user to a new page which would
process their data and give a response? That would be much more acceptable
and less complicated than opening a new window.

> The user would
> then close the window by clicking on a 'close' link in the new window.
> I would also like the form data cleared, so the user doesn't think the
> submission didn't work, despite seeing the confirmation window.

This would all be solved with the new page as described above.

> Any ideas?

The processing certainly can't be done in HTML. For that you'll need a
language (I highly recomend PHP) which could manage all of your data in a
database and could also determine whether the user has already been
subscribed and other functions.
--
Michael Wilcox
mjwilco at yahoo dot com
Essential Tools for the Web Developer - http://mikewilcox.t35.com

Scott <> wrote:
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And please don't multipost. Use crossposting instead. See
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/xpost.html for more info.
--
Michael Wilcox
mjwilco at yahoo dot com
Essential Tools for the Web Developer - http://mikewilcox.t35.com

Scott wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I hope someone might be able to set me straight on how to handle the
> situation described below.
>
> I have a page that has an email field for user input and 2 radio buttons
> (subscribe + unsubscribe) for signing up to a mailing list. What I would
> like to have happen is the following:
> The user enters an email and presses the submit button.
> At this point a new window opens (I would like to be able to specify size,
> etc rather than use _blank) to process the submission and return a reponse
> (succeeded, already subscribed, etc). The user would then close the window
> by clicking on a 'close' link in the new window.
> I would also like the form data cleared, so the user doesn't think the
> submission didn't work, despite seeing the confirmation window.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Scott

Remember that many people now turn off popups (for good reason). If you
insist on using a popup you will likely loose many potential subscribers.
Just open a new page (as is common on the web) to indicate "success" or
"you're already registered" or whatever.

--George