UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Opening results for a form handling script into a new window

I've got a form page on my site that passes the contents of the form to a handling script that checks for completion of the form and that certain required items are filled out. If they're not, it displays an error message telling them that so and so item is missing, to go back and enter that information and resubmit the form. Unfortunately, for many users, when they browse back, they'll lose all the information they've entered, which is frustrating for them. I experience this in IE, but not in Firefox, but I've had reports from Firefox users that they've had this happen as well.

What I'd like to do is to open the error message results into a new browser window, leaving the form page intact (and just display the success/confirmation message there if everything is filled out).

I tried using the target attribute in the form code, but that doesn't seem to work - it seems like the handling script is overriding that. Here's what I tried:


That doesn't work, the error results still open in the same window (why, I'm not sure).

In the app handling script, I'm using code like this with a series of IF condition checks to see if a form data entry is filled in (and if it's in the right format for a few items, like e-mail address):


How can I get these errors to spawn in a new window, leaving the form data alone in its original window? Alternatively, is there some way I can preserve the existing form data and return what's been filled out to the user on a "return to the application to fill in missing data" link or something? If so, well, how?

Any thoughts on this, or even pointers to someplace discussing this sort of thing other than here?

basically what ya want is an error page to popup? or do ya just want the eror to show up? cause IF it was me.. I would create a script that at has a

if(!$do == "ran"){
do this
}

if ($do == "ran"){
do this

}

then in the form put a hidden field called $do and then use a bunch of $_POST calls to get the data which if was never ran would be null and if ran would be something.. then test for the something to see if they entered all the somethings you wanted them to and if not it would still keep the values they did but wouldn't process the rest of the script until they entered it all

I want the error page to open in a new window.

okay well thats a little trickier and I would probably use a javascript popup in that instance then.