Wait, I'm stupid. You're closing the window upon submission of the form,
so that will close the session, so the php at the beginning will never
process after form submission. Make the form submit to another page that
won't be closed. 

-Micah

On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 13:24, Mignon Hunter wrote:

> Unfortunately I havnt gotten it to work yet.  Am I missing something ?
> 
> PS the query works without the closewindow()
> 
> <?
> include ('dbconn.php');
> if(isset($submit))
>        {       
>       $query = "INSERT INTO `comments` (  `track_id`, `cat_comments` ) VALUES
> ( '0', '$comm' );";
>       mysql_query ($query, $link );           
>       }      
> ?>
> 
> 
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <html>
> <head>
> <title></title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <form action="comp_page3.php" method="POST">
> Enter your details here:<br>
> <textarea name="comm" rows="15" cols="30"></textarea><br>
> 
> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Close and Save"
> onClick="return window.close();"> 
> 
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 14:44, Micah Stevens wrote:
> > The window.close(); function is not returning control to the form after
> > closing the window. You must tell it to do so. Use:
> > 
> > onClick="return window.close();"
> > 
> > This will return the window.close() value to the submit button so that
> > it can do its thing after the window has been closed.
> > 
> > Use the same thing for the other form items too. 
> > 
> > Hope this helps. 
> > -Micah
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 12:31, Mignon Hunter wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello List,
> > > 
> > > Has anyone had any problems using the onClick="window.close();"
> > > function within a input type = "submit" ?
> > > 
> > > I'm trying 
> > > 
> > > <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"
> > > onClick="window.close();"> 
> > > 
> > > But evidently it's reading the close before the submit because the value
> > > of my form var is not being passed.  
> > > 
> > > I have also tried it in conjunction with a hidden field too.
> > > 
> > > <input type="hidden" value="<?echo $comm;?>"> 
> > > <input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"
> > > onClick="window.close();"> 
> > > 
> > > If I dont use the onclick() the variable gets passed and/or entered into
> > > db just fine.
> > > 
> > > Curious if anyone has had this problem or if anyone has any ideas...Thx
> > > Mignon
> > 
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> 

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