Opening modal window and passing variable to it to use in php code

[sharapov]

Let's say I'm generating a modal window with the following code:


function doit(){

window.showModalDialog("index.php","","dialogHeight: 300px; dialogWidth: 300px; dialogTop: px; dialogLeft: px; edge: Raised; center: Yes; help: No; resizable: No; status: No;"
}



and calling it with:

<button onclick=&quot;doit()&quot;>Test</button>


My question is: Is it possible to pass some variable to the new opened window (some number like ID for example) so that I can use this variable in the new opened page. (to run this number against database for example).

I know it can be done if I do something like index.php?id=1234, and then grab it with $_GET. But I'd rather have modal window. Can anybodu help?

 

[sleipnir214]

You can't use &quot;index.php?di=1234&quot; as the source URL of your dialog box? (Which I assume the first parameter is).

If you can, have PHP create the client-side code dynamically.


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[sharapov]

sleipnir214,

I don't think you understood my question correctly. I am not using index.php as my source URL. I am using some other page from which I want to cal a function that would open index.php. Also I want to pass some variable into index.php so that I can use that variable to search MySQL database (for example).

I know that it is possible to pass variable to other page by doing <a href=&quot;index.php?id=1234&quot;> and then inside index.php use $_GET to get that variable, BUT I want to have MODAL window and not a regular one, and that is why I don't want to use that approach.

 

[sleipnir214]

I don't understand what it is you are trying to do. The verb phrase &quot;cal a function&quot; has me particularly confused.

What is your PHP question? All this talk about modal dialog boxes is not PHP.

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[Dronealone]

You've got me intrigued too, what is a modal window?

 

[sharapov]

sleipnir214,

Thank you for your replyt. Don't stress out . I found a solution to my problem. I can call this (Javascript) function like this:

<button onclick=&quot;doit('some_var')&quot;>Test</button>

the function itself looks like this:

function doit(myid){

window.showModalDialog(&quot;index.php?id=&quot;+myid,&quot;myid&quot;,&quot;dialogHeight: 300px; dialogWidth: 300px; dialogTop: px; dialogLeft: px; edge: Raised; center: Yes; help: No; resizable: No; status: No;&quot;
}

Then in index.php I can do something like:

if(isset($_GET['myid'])) {
echo &quot;Received parameter: &quot;.$_GET['myid'];
}else{
echo &quot;No param. ;(&quot;;
}

This would let me pass PHP variable from one page to the next using javascript.