Button to save and redirect

I guess this might have been a stupid question.

After seeing no response over the weekend I went searching for an answer.
Very quickly I learned that using the form.submit in javascript does not invoke the onSubmit command of a form.
So now Im off to find an answer to my javascript inexperience on how to use the return validate in a script and then do my other steps to redirect and reload the calling page.
If anyone has a tip for me that would be great. If not, well, thanks for letting me ramble.

Dale,
I'm sorry for the delay with reply.

Here is the sample code you can use to add "Save and Close" button.

The button code:

<input class="button" type="button" onclick="submit_form();" value="save and close">

Then find this line in ..._edit.php file:

$message="<div class=message><<< "."Record updated"." >>></div>";

and insert this snippet just after:

if(@$_POST["backtolist"])

Perfect. Thankyou thankyou.

I had come across the header location theory in my reading and tried a quick attempt but I had no success.

The code sample is very much appreciated.
Im off to try it out.

Alexa,

The snippet works perfectly but of course I have add a wrinkle.
I have modified the code that phprunner creates for the list.php.

When you select a row, a div is opened and the request for the ..._edit.php or ..._add.php is requested and then displayed in this new dynamic window.
What I was using the Save and Close button for was to Save the change, then close the dynamic window and refresh the ..._list page.
the snippet below, you provided does refresh the page, but it stays in the opened window.
if(@$_POST["backtolist"])

{
header("Location: ##SHORTTABLENAME##_list.php?a=return");

return;

}
I thought I could add the close window statement as below to close the window and then run the refresh.
if(@$_POST["backtolist"])

{

window.top.hidePopWin();

header("Location: ##SHORTTABLENAME##_list.php?a=return");

return;

}
I get the PHP error happened.
Use of undefined constant window - assumed 'window'
I have been searching for an answer on the net for over an hour and I have not come up with a solution.
Can you spot what I am doing wrong, or give me a tip on solving this issue.

How do i get the window to close and run the refresh in one swoop.
Thankyou for you experience and patient.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Solution found. I added functionality to the dynamic window created to run a script when closing if True is returned.
This ensures the list is refreshed when closing the dynamic window. This now allows me to add and edit any record in a separate window without leaving the list. When you close the window you are right back to the list.
Now if I can only get a next and back button working to work through the list without having to go back to the list. That would be great.
IF anyone has any ideas on creating a next and back to traverse through a list. That would be fantastic.

Hello forum members,
I seem to be having problems trying to get this to work. I am running a phprunner 3.0 build 118 generated app. After editting a record, I want to redirect to the list page without having to click the "back to list" link.
As I was searching the forum, this post is very close to what I want to be able to do. I have a custom javascript file (pcmacct_js.php) in my include directory. It does things like disabling certain fields based on the record contents, record age, etc. It also does some custom formatting for telephone numbers, etc.
Since I already have this custom javascript file I want to put the advised code in this file instead of the main ..._edit.php program.
This is what I did. The code for the button in ..._edit.php is this:
<!-- buttons -->

<tr height=50><td colspan=2 align=center>

<input class=button type=button value="Save" onclick="java script: submitform()">

<input type=hidden name="backtolist" value="">

<input class=button type=reset value="Reset">

<input type=hidden name="a" value="edited">

<input type=hidden name=imagefield value="">

</td></tr>
I added this per the instructions to the ..._edit.php
$message="<div class=message><<< "."Record updated"." >>></div>";^M
if(@$_POST["backtolist"])

{

header("Location: mos_pcmacct_list.php?a=return");

return;

}
Since I don't want to put the javascript in my edit.php program as this example did I placed the following in my function submitform() in the include/custom_java_script.php program.
<script type="text/javascript">

color = "#F1F1F1";
document.editform.value1.disabled = 1;

document.editform.value1.style.background = color;

document.editform.value2.focus();
function submitform()

{

document.editform.value1.disabled = '';

if(!editform.onsubmit || editform.onsubmit())

{

editform.backtolist.value="yes";

document.editform.submit();

}

}

</script>
Now when I run the ..._edit.php program and click save I get the "Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by" error message. Here is the entire message:
Error type 2

Error description Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /var/www/vhosts/cbs-checkmate.com/httpsdocs/phprunner/admin/include/pcmacct_js.php:1)

URL cbs-checkmate.com/phprunner/admin/mos_pcmacct_edit.php?

Error file /var/www/vhosts/cbs-checkmate.com/httpsdocs/phprunner/admin/mos_pcmacct_edit.php

Error line 322
line 322 is this:

header("Location: mos_pcmacct_list.php?a=return");
this line was added per above right after the "Record Updated" line.
I should add, if I follow the instructions per this thread exactly (by not using my custom javascript program) and just adding the suggested code, it works. However, then I don't get the benefits of my custom javascript. <img src='https://asprunner.com/forums/file.php?topicimage=1&fieldname=reply&id=11667&image=1&table=forumreplies' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':(' />
I know this error message is a common one.
Anyone any thoughts?
Thanks,

Dave

Dave,
the redirect fails because of your pcmacct_js.php file.

Either move the include statement for this file after the redirection code in ..._edit.php or use Javascript code to redirect.

I.e. replace

header("Location: mos_pcmacct_list.php?a=return");

with the following:

?>

Thanks Alexey,

That worked perfectly. <img src='https://asprunner.com/forums/file.php?topicimage=1&fieldname=reply&id=11724&image=1&table=forumreplies' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':D' />
Dave