Question

I am using the project ‘ModalBox’ from http://okonet.ru/projects/modalbox/index.html in order to generate my modal.

I am also using this overall script that persists e-mails submitted via form into a basic text file as a simple/quick solution. http://www.knowledgesutra.com/forums/topic/25586-php-simple-newsletter-script/

I have a dilemma though.
In order to keep the modal and display my ‘mailing_thankyou.php’ my form has to have ‘onsubmit=”return false”‘ but in order for my php script to work, I have to remove that return false, but then it changes to a new page in order to persist that information.

Does anyone have any ideas?

This is the main part in question:

myModal.html

<div id="signUp">
<form action="mailer/mailing.php" id="myForm" method="post" class="style16">
    <input type="text" name="email" size="30" value="your email here!">
    <input type="submit" value="Send link" name="submit" onclick="Modalbox.show('mailer/mailing_thankyou.php', {title: 'Form sending status', width: 500, params:Form.serialize('myForm') }); return false;">
    &nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href="#" title="Cancel &amp; close dialog" onclick="Modalbox.hide(); return false;">Cancel &amp; close</a>
    <!-- ><input type="submit" value="GO!" name="submit"> -->
    </form>
</div>

You may pull my files from my git repo:
https://github.com/jwmann/Modal-Sign-up

Answer 1

I removed the ‘return false’ from the input submit’s ‘onsubmit’ (duhhh facepalm) because it was trying to serialize it in the first palce with prototype.js

Then I changed the php script so it would grab with $_GET instead of $_POST

no added functionality or hacks needed. Thank you for all the help though.