In the future please post to the new group prototype-scriptaculous:
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Change to onComplete: tidyup (not tidyup() which calls a function and
evaluates to its return value)
-Fred
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Martin Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Here's my situation. Parent browser window opens a popup window. The
> popup window contains a form that I'd like to submit to a php script
> via ajax. I'd then like the popup window to automatically close (don't
> need to display any feedback from the php script).
>
> My popup window calls submitform() when the form is submitted. Here's
> the contents of my .js file:
>
> function ajaxUpdater(id,url) {
> new Ajax.Updater(id,url,{asynchronous:true});
> }
>
> function submitform() {
> ajaxUpdater('mydiv', 'submit.php?value=' +
> document.getElementById('something').value
> , {
> onComplete: tidyup()
> }
> );
> }
>
> function tidyup() {
> window.close();
> }
>
> Before I added the onComplete callback, this was working - in that the
> data was submitted to the form. Now though, it seems that window.close
> is called before the ajax request is made: watching my server's access
> log I don't see submit.php being called. If I comment out
> window.close() , I see submit.php being called.
>
> Am I misunderstanding the use of callbacks? I was under the impression
> that onComplete would only be fired once the the webserver had
> returned a status header in response to the ajax request.
>
> Thanks,
> Martin
>
> >
>
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