Changing a windows contents from a pop-up

[Grimblam]

Hello,

I have a bit of a dummy question.

I have a main window which when opened, a login pop-up window is immediately displayed. The login page asks a user for username and password in a form. When the user clicks submit, it sends the form details to a php page called loginquery.php which checks the details in a mysql database and if ok, forwards on to the logged in page.

My problem is that when submit is clicked, the php

(header("Location: ./main.php")

is forwarding on to the next page in the pop-up window where I actually wanted it to close the pop-up and forward onto the next page in the main window.

Can anyone suggest a way of doing this? A rough snippet of code would be ideal.

Thanks a lot,
Andy

 

[DRJ478]

You will have to use a client side scripting language for this, e.g. JavaScript. There is a JavaScript forum on Tek-Tips.

However, your method seems not to be that secure. Anyone could just type in main.php in the browser addess bar...

I would suggest to handle the whole login process within one window anyway. Why do we need another popup? People disable popups these days.

Just as a hint:

<script language="Javascript">
   window.opener.location.href = "main.php";
   self.close();
</script>