self closing a window

[hanhao]

ok i need to self close a window (like after 5 seconds)

anyone knows the command to close the window?

would

PHP Code:

echo "self.close()";


?

be correct?

- hanhao

[Weedpacket]

PHP can't do this because it doesn't know what a "window" is.

Javascript could do it, though. Something like

<script type="text/javascript">self.close();</script>

Though you'll probably need to search the net a bit to see how Javascript does timers (I can never remember, so that's what I end up doing every time I need to do it. SetTimeout() or something like that.)

[bradgrafelman]

Yeah... I have trouble with it too, so here's my guess:

<script type="text/javascript"> setTimeout("self.close()", 5000); </script>

[JPnyc]

That is the correct syntax, but be aware that you can only close a window with scripting, that you opened. You can't close the initial window used to navigate to your site. IE will throw up a prompt asking if the user wants to allow, and the other major browsers just ignore it.