Calling a function from another window

[Jos� Miguel Velasco]

I'm trying to make something like this:

I have an HTML page with Javascript. By clicking a button, another window is opened in order to allow data to be entered. I want this data to be updated in a data base (server side is PHP and MySQL), the secondary window be closed and the first window be refreshed with the new data.

How can I call a Javascript function in the first window in order to reload it when the secondary window is closed?

In the first window, a refreshing function is already coded and put as the onChange event of a SELECT element. It would be easy for me to simulate by code in the secondary window the SELECT's onChange event, but I'm afraid I can't. I'm able to get a reference in the secondary window to the SELECT element, but I have tried to execute the handleEvent method and it doesn't work.

Anybody can give any idea? Thanks in advance.

[Eric Pascarello]

you can call a function from the child window by adding the window.opener object to it.

window.opener.FUNCTION()

You can reload the page with

window.opener.reload();

Eric

[Jos� Miguel Velasco]

Thanks. It works.