Closing a popu up and opening a new web page

What is the difference between a browser and a window?

What I am looking to do is when a visitor leaves my site a pop up window will appear asking
the user to join my newsletter and submit his/her name and email address. After the user
submits his/her information I want that pop up to close, and the visitors browser to load to
my referral.cfm page. How can I do this?

I guess to answer your question, nothing. I am referring to them as one and the same.

Sincerely,
Brandon Powell

What I do is start my popup window template newsletter join form something like this:


<form action="http://#CGI.SERVER_NAME##CGI.SCRIPT_NAME#"


so that it calls itself. At the top of my popup window template I have this:


<!--- Have we called ourselves? --->
<cfif NOT CompareNoCase(ListFirst(CGI.HTTP_REFERER, '?'), 'http://' & CGI.SERVER_NAME & CGI.SCRIPT_NAME)>
      <cfoutput><script type="text/javascript">
            /* We have called ourselves, so the work must've already been done by the newsletter join action code above this code*/
            window.close();
            opener.location.href = "referral.cfm?CFID=#CFID#&CFTOKEN=#CFToken#";
      </script></cfoutput>
      <cfabort>
</cfif>


so that all it displays after you push the submit button is a script telling the window to close and telling its opener to relocate. In the onClose() event of the parent window I have this:


function newWindowMenu(popUpURL, popUpWidth, popUpHeight) {
      /*       creates a new resizable, scrollable, centered window that
            can be closed and reopened without spawning errors. */
      var windowLeft = (screen.availWidth - popUpWidth)/2;
      var windowTop = (screen.availHeight - popUpHeight)/2;
      // sigh...
      var params1 = "left=" + windowLeft + ",top=" + windowTop;
      var params2 = ",screenX=" + windowLeft + ",screenY=" + windowTop;
      var params3 = ",width=" + popUpWidth + ",height=" + popUpHeight;
      var params4 = ",toolbar=0,location=0,directories=0,status=0";
      var params5 = ",menubar=1,scrollbars=1,resizable=1";
      var theRest = params1 + params2 + params3 + params4 + params5;
      var popUp = window.open(popUpURL, "Link", theRest, "focus();");
      try {
            if(popUp.opener==null) {
                  popUp.opener = window;
                  }
            }
      catch(e) {
            }
      popUp.focus();
      }
window.onclose = newWindowMenu('popup_window_template_newsletter_join_form.cfm', 500, 300);


so that the parent window has an opener attribute that I can refer to in the child window.

The above code is optimized for IE 6.x and CF 5 and needs to be tweaked a little to get it to work in other environments. Which browsers are you working with? What version of Cold Fusion are you working with?

Thank you very much for all of your assistance!

Sincerely,
Brandon Powell