PHP and framesets

[Anon]

I have got a problem that is driving me mad! I have a form on a page (with no frames). The user enters a keyword, and the form sends the keyword to search.php. This searches a database and prints the results of the search (which happen to include a hyperlinks). Fine - this all works perfectly.

My problem is that I want the results to be printed into (the body of) a frameset, so the user can click on any hyperlinks in the results and go off to other sites, but still have some buttons (in my nav frame) to go back to database search facilities.

What I have tried is defining search.php as the body of a frameset. OK, the results are printed, but the complete frameset is not opened.

I then included JS

if (top.location == self.location)
{self.location.replace ("frameset.htm")}

The complete frameset now opens, but search.php is now REloaded, (and has "forgotten" what the keyword was) and doesn't show the correct search results.

I would be very grateful to hear any ideas how I can solve this one!

Cris

[vsego]

Not sure I got this correctly. Do you have it on-line (as it is now)?

If I DID get you correctly, you need to call, let's say search_frames.php:

<frameset...>
<frame name="navbar" src="navbar.php?keyword=<?= $keyword ?>">
<frame name="main" src="search.php?keyword=<?= $keyword ?>">
</frameset...>

Then, navbar.php will have
<input name="keyword" value="<?= $keyword ?>

search.php will display search results.

All in all, no need for JavaScript.

[Anon]

Thank you very much for your reply. Your code works perfectly.

I did not realise that you can "redirect" a variable from one file/script to another in this way.

As you might have deduced I am fairly new to PHP!

The site is not yet online.

Once again, many thanks.

Cris