Javascript passing variables between windows

toastyman · 28 Mar 2006 at 21:57

OK I want to pass two variables from a window to the one which originally opened it.

The code that opens the window:

Code:

window.open('/estimate.php','scrollbars=yes,menubar=no,height=480,width=515,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,location=no,status=no');

Also on that parent page:

Code:

nextgridreferenceheightgained=document.newday.nextgridreferenceheightgained.value;
distancetonext=document.newday.distancetonext.value;

And on estimate.php:

Code:

opener.nextgridreferenceheightgained="3";
opener.distancetonext="0";

Btw don't know why the forum is adding random spaces in :confused:

Can anyone help make this code work?

oldbag · 28 Mar 2006 at 22:00

Don't you need something like:

window.open('/estimate.php?variable='blah','scrollbars=yes,menubar=no,height=48 0,width=515,resizable=yes,toolba....

Is there such a thing as querystring in php?

toastyman · 28 Mar 2006 at 22:04

I want the variables to come from estimate.php to the one that opened it....
Other way round

else that would have been easy to do with PHP.
I'm just generally pants with JavaScript!

toastyman · 29 Mar 2006 at 13:25

Anyone got any ideas on this?

crazymoose · 29 Mar 2006 at 16:26

on estimate.php try this

window.opener.nextgridreferenceheightgained.value='3';
window.opener.distancetonext.value='0';

That should do it

toastyman · 29 Mar 2006 at 17:08

Thanks

In the end I had to use:

Code:

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
window.opener.document.newday.nextgridreferenceheightgained.value="<?php echo $heightgained; ?>";
window.opener.document.newday.distancetonext.value="<?php echo $totalkm; ?>";
-->

I knew I was kind of close.

Again, thanks!

crazymoose · 29 Mar 2006 at 23:54

hehe so close

glad you got it sorted...