[SOLVED] close current window in php script

[Posie]

I have a form to email script. At the end of the script, after the email has been submitted, the script echos "The consultation form has been submitted...Thank you"

This echo is now alone on the window. Is it possible to add on a function to close this window? Could this be done within the php script, after the "thank you" echo?

Or does this need to be placed within an html page including the php script, in javascript? (creating a button to click to close the window)

Thanks for all the great advice!

[Rakuli]

You simply need to write out some javascript with php

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echo 'The consultation form has been submitted... Thank You!<br /><br /><button onclick="window.close()">Close Window</button>'; 

Cheers

[Posie]

Wow, man! You are fast!

Thanks a bunch!

[Rakuli]

LOL right place at the right time.. Glad it works

[prydie]

That was javascript... you printed the js in php but still not php... I wonder is there a php function that does this as well. Anyone know?

[Rakuli]

No. LOL simple as that.... PHP is server side, it does not affect the client computer in any way. It serves the text/data to be loaded and this is all, it writes the javascript but cannot interact with the client at all

[prydie]

What a stupid question to have put to you guys and having coded php for as long as i have you would have thought I'd put two and two together. I am always trying to explain to people server side and client side scripting and yet I get it wrong myself... man im embarrassed!

[c010depunkk]

hehe. Don't worry... It also took me ages to understand that concept - PHP is server-side and generates HTML.....