PHP form to popup?

[Blood22]

Hi there,

I don't know if this is possible but I am looking into it anyway!

I have developed a simple PHP system within a secondary school. It is based on the intranet, and the idea behind it is that a member of staff can go anywhere in the school and log a fault through a PHP form, that goes into a MYSQL database and can be retrieved on another page.

As an IT technician based in another office in the school I would have to check the results page every hour or so which is quite inconvenient. Is there any possibility, that when a member of staff enters details into a form and submits that it can direct the results to a popup screen on my pc using ip address or something else?

I am fairly new to PHP so any help at all would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Si22

 

[dkdude]

Hi,

Here's one way you could do that:

Make the results page auto-refresh (that's plain HTML).

Have the results page script determine if there have been logged any problems since last refresh.

- If yes, include a pop-up javascript...

- If no, don't...

Good Luck


Jakob

 

[KarveR]

Failing that, send an email message from the page that inserts the data into the database, to mail you of new items.

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[skiflyer]

Failing that you could use shell_exec along with "net send" if PHP is running on a windows machine.

Or, setup a jabber server and have it send you an IM

Or download Opera so you can just have it auto-refresh the page for you every so many minutes, then it's no change to anything.

 

[Bastien]

I recently wrote a net send application...here is the code


You will need to enable messenger services (not the msn messenger application) on 2000/XP to get this to work

The IP can be the IP of the receving computer, or the computer name if it has one. Enter '/users' to send to all users on a network.

This is tested on an XP machine running apache / php. Should have no issues on IIS / php machines

Now... the code

<? 
if(!isset($_POST['submit'])){ 
  show_form(); 
}else{ 
  //get message 
  if (isset($_POST['message'])){ 
     $mess = escapeshellcmd($_POST['message']); 
  }else{ 
     echo "no message"; 
     show_form(); 
     die(); 
  } 
  //$ip is the ip of your friends machine...you could build a db table or array to use the name entry to find the ip 
  if (isset($_POST['ip'])){ 
     $ip = escapeshellcmd($_POST['ip']); 
  }else{ 
     echo "no ip"; 
     show_form(); 
     die(); 
  } 
  echo "NET SEND $ip $mess"; 
  exec("NET SEND $ip $mess"); 

} 
function show_form() 
{ 
?> 
    <form method="POST" action="<?=$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>"> 
    <table cellpading=2 cellspacing=2 border=2 width=50%> 
    <tr> 
    <td align=center valign=top> 
    <p>IP<br> 
    <input type="text" name="ip" size="20"></p> 
    </td> 
    </tr> 
    </table> 
    <table cellpading=2 cellspacing=2 border=2 width=50%> 
    <tr> 
    <td align=center valign=top> 
    <p>Message<br> 
    <textarea cols=40 rows=4 name="message"></textarea> 
    <p><input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send"></P> 
    </td> 
    </tr> 
    </table> 
<? 
} 
?>

Bastien

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