in PHP, how would i use a prompt window to confirm whether the user really wants to perform an action?

eg a user clicks on a delete button, then a popup window says 'are you sure you wish to delete this topic. if they click yes then it deletes, if they click no then it does nothing

You would have to do this user JavaScript, it's impossible in PHP because it's server side. If the user presses 'Yes' the JavaScript would redirect to the new page, or if they press 'No' then do nothing.

ok cool thanks, got any links to tutorials on how to do this?

Something like that is the most basic example

If you want that to appear when someone clicks a link you would do:



Where X is the ID of the item.

not sure what im doing wrong, but it isnt working for me.

Stephen - i presume i am putting that in the head tags, in between a <script type="text/javascript"> </script> tag?

EDIT: nevermind, steve you left out a bracket before "script.php...

actually I didn't, I put one at the end thats the one which isn't need :-"