a submit button opening in another window coding

[mollymoo]

Hi I have a submit button that opens the results on another website. I want it so that as they click on the submit button it opens in a new window so that my website still remains open. Anyone know of some coding that will do this and where to put it. I have tried putting a blank tag on it but with no luck. hope this makes sense. Thaks

[OBonio]

In the <FORM> tag, put TARGET="ResultWindow".

[mollymoo]

Hi I did put it in the form tags but nothing happened. It is a foreign exchange calculator that I have on my site but the submit buttons gets the results form the developers site and their site displays the results. Would this make any difference. thanks

[OBonio]

Is this live on the internet at all? Can I have a look at what you're doing exactly? What browser are you using?

[mollymoo]

yes I have just published it live to the following URL.

www.sarahhood.co.uk/tester/international.htm

I use internet explorer to test the page.

I have published it without the code meantioned above. Thanks your help is much appreciated OBonio

[OBonio]

Line 221 should look like this :

<FORM TARGET="result" METHOD="POST" ACTION="http://www.xe.com/ucc/convert.cgi">

[mollymoo]

wonderful thank you very much for all your help havign been trying to sort it out all day. many thanks. are you a developer? i am lookign for someone to do a seacrh form and databse reults page for me???

[OBonio]

If it still doesn't work, try clearing the cache and reloading the page (hold down shift when hitting refresh).

[OBonio]

Yes, I'm a developer for my sins.

[mollymoo]

cool do you offer such a service and if so can you give me a quote. Do you have a site yourself? thanks

[mollymoo]

sorry the other thing i needed to ask how do i work out quickly which line is 221. i use frontpage or have web weaver. thanks

[OBonio]

Is there a Find in FrontPage? Ctrl+F should bring it up. Then just look for http://www.xe.com. That should take you to the FORM line.

[mollymoo]

got it thanks and it worked....hoorah.

Do you offer your development services for a fee do you run a company that I might be able to pay to do something for me please thanks

[OBonio]

Yay :o)

I have offered my services out before for a bit of 'extra money' but I'm not sure I have the time at the moment. Baby due in 3 months... saying that, I do need a little bit of cash.

What do you need doing exactly? Maybe you could put it up on http://www.rentacoder.com

[mollymoo]

congrats on the baby. well basically as you saw it is a property site and for the rental and sales section I would need a search form that would then display the results of a specific search. the results page would have a small pic along with a few lines of detail and the price along with a link to see more info, which would go to a page taht I would build for each property. Does this make sense. How much roughly would this cost.

[OBonio]

The question is how much do you want to spend. Using PHP and MySql would make things cheaper, but does your hosting support it? ASP.NET with an MSDE or Access backend would be nice. Access is a little slow though. ASP is a little outdated now and I'd rather not go there.... what technologies does your hosting company offer for scripting and databases?

[mollymoo]

it is this hosting package that i am going to be switching over to. Someone quoted me about 450/500 so far.

http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/hosting/windows2003/windowsst andard/

Ideally I was lookign to use access as i knew how to use access to update the information as properties are sold or added.

[OBonio]

I'd suggest you get an admin area to update, add and delete information in the database. Uploading a new database each time you want to do this would be a right royal pain.

If you weren't using any of the extras with that ISP account (I went for interview with them 2 years ago strangely enough), I'd go for PHP and an Access backend.

I'd probably quote about 400. That would include an administrative area so you can add/edit/delete information and the search functionality too.

Ideally, I'd want to use ASP.NET, but that's an extra �25. Would reduce the quote to 350 though as time spent developing is greatly reduced.

[mollymoo]

cool thats sound exaclty like what i am looking for have you got an email address I can send you some more details so we know we are goign down the right lines and stuff. Thanks

[OBonio]

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