At 6:38 PM -0500 5/29/06, Jay Blanchard wrote:
[snip] However, PHP can download a page with input fields disabled that includes a div styled to look like a dialog box with a couple of submit buttons labeled YES & NO. Submitting YES will request the same page from PHP but without the dialog div and with user interface fields enabled; NO will request the same page but without the dialog div and with UI fields disabled. From the user's point of view, the main difference between doing this with PHP and doing it with JavaScript is that the PHP solution will take at least a few seconds for the round-trip to the server whereas JavaScript's response to a confirm() dialog will seem instantaneous. [/snip] Interesting concept Paul, so you are saying that PHP can be used to generate something that looks like an alert box using CSS? Or are you saying that PHP would use an intermediary page to generate the behavior?
This really isn't any different than a page calling itself, or another page, where the result looks like a pop-up dialog box.
I think the only real difference here is that in a "true" pop-up dialog box, the pop-up window appears above the previous window and goes away after the dialog leaving the previous window. However, that may be accomplished if php can generate two browser windows -- I don't know if it can, but I suspect it might.
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