Submit form and show thank you in same popup window

[zebedeee]

Hi all,

This is a mix of jquery and PHP so let me know if Im in the wrong place.

Basically I have a button saying click here to request a sample. This button when clicked opens a popup window with a form to fill out. This popup is generated by this bit of jquery:

// Pop up samples request form
	$('a.login-window').click(function() {
		
        //Getting the variable's value from a link 
		var formBox = $(this).attr('href');

		//Fade in the Popup
		$(formBox).fadeIn(300);
		
		//Set the center alignment padding + border see css style
		var popMargTop = ($(formBox).height() + 24) / 2; 
		var popMargLeft = ($(formBox).width() + 24) / 2; 
		
		$(formBox).css({ 
			'margin-top' : -popMargTop,
			'margin-left' : -popMargLeft
		});

		return false;
	});
	
	// When clicking on the button close or the mask layer the popup closed
	$('a.close').live('click', function() { 
	  $('.login-popup').fadeOut(300 , function() {
	}); 
		return false;
	});

Now once the form is submitted PHP kicks in to email the form data as plain text. Here is the PHP:-

$sent = '';

if (($_POST['fname'] != ''))
{
        //Send the email
        $textEmail = file_get_contents("emails/samples.txt");
        
        $textEmail = str_replace("|FNAME|",$_POST['fname'],$textEmail);
        $textEmail = str_replace("|ADDRESS|",$_POST['address'],$textEmail);
        $textEmail = str_replace("|POSTCODE|",$_POST['postcode'],$textEmail);
        $textEmail = str_replace("|EMAIL|",$_POST['email'],$textEmail);
        $textEmail = str_replace("|PRODUCT|",$_POST['product'],$textEmail);
        
        $to = "email@myemail.co.uk";
            $subject = "Samples request";
           $headers = "From: email@myemail.co.uk"."\r\n"."X-Mailer: PHP/".phpversion();
        
        ini_set("sendmail_from", "email@myemail.co.uk");
        
        mail($to,$subject,$textEmail,$headers, '-femail@myemail.co.uk');
        
        $sent = 'y';

} 

I normally just use the $sent variable to display a message depending on the value. However once the form is submitted the popup window is closed - so the message is not shown.

How can I make the popup window stay open after the form has been submitted and show a thank you message? Or show a thank you message in a new popup window?

Thank you kind humans!

[hastx]

It must be programmed to close automatically. If you want the window to stay open, why not just use a window.open() call? Is there some reason for using jquery to open a form window?