[UPHPU] modal popup form over form

[MilesTogoe]

Nathan Lane wrote:
> Are you saying that you are trying to create a CSS/HTML-based dialog 
> "pop up" in front of the form to add a new item to the list table via 
> javascript I assume? You could just use javascript to refresh the 
> list, you could also put the list in an iframe and refresh the whole 
> page. It kind of sounds like you're looking for a more artificial 
> refresh. PHP in general is not Model-View-Controller based like rails, 
> so you might take Firebug (a firefox plugin) and look at the rails 
> final product you did and see how you could emulate the rails product 
> in PHP using HTML and JavaScript. I don't know of a quick solution to 
> this in PHP off hand.
yes we are looking at some javascript to pop up another css/html form in 
front of the other form.  The looking at it in firebug idea is a good 
one (keep forgetting how useful it is)  - we didn't do this in rails, 
just saw an example that someone else did.   For example, 37signals 
seems to do this on the sidebar with their products.



>
> Nathan
>
> On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 8:13 AM, MilesTogoe <miles.togoe at gmail.com 
> <mailto:miles.togoe at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I have the case on a select box needing to have an add capability
>     (popup a form to add a new element to the list table and refresh
>     the list) without disturbing the filled in data on the underlaying
>     form.   I've seen this done in Rails but searched around this AM
>     trying to find a cool JQuery lightbox kind of dialog and didn't
>     see anything like this - does anyone know of a link to a good
>     example or tutorial of this ?
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