Frames

jc94062

I have a polling system, and I want it to reload itself when a poll is clicked on to show either the results, or voting box depending on if they have voted, anyway, I have the code...

<frameset>
Current Polls 
<?
if ($show == "post") {include "polls.php";}
elseif ($show == "results") {include "pollsresults.php";}
else {include "polllist.php";}
?>
</frameset>

unfortunately the only way for this to work, is when one of the polls is clicked, the entire index page reloads which ?$show=whatever in the URL, this I don't mind, but its a stupid way to do it, there must be some way to refresh only the frame that the polls are in.

maybe header("Location: http://www.mysite.com/index.php?show=post&refreshframeonly");

or something like that, but I just can't figure it out, anyone with any ideas would be most welcome!

Thanks

Anon

When a frame is refreshed, only that frame is reloaded not the entire page, so i dont really see the problem? Just make sure the target is _self or the name of the frame.

jc94062

Thats what I need to do, currently the entire page reloads...

Top on index.php page..

if ($submitpoll) {
header("Location: www.mysite.com/index.php");
}

I can't work out how to reload only the frame!

Anon

Surely if you only reload a frame within a frame, that is all it will load? I have a site that has 3 frames, the main one at the bottom refreshes every 30 seconds to keep count of online users, etc. I never have a problem, when reloading the frame from within the frame. Where are you telling the page to reload? What frame?

jc94062

The code I gave before is in a <frameset>, I haven't actually given in a name, I try to avoid the use of frames whereever possible...

The problem is that using a header command will refresh the whole page (call a header to Location: $PHP_SELF basically), I just want to know what to add to my header command to tell it to reload ONLY that frame!

jc94062

I tried

header("Location: http://www.mysite.com/index.php target=polls");

but it didn't work, and

header("Location: http://www.mysite.com/index.php "target=polls);

just gave me an error of course...

Thanks anyone