pass user input into frame

ace_gene

I have a page which collects user input, then I want to pass the user input into one frame in a multi-frame page. How can I do this? Thanks!

drewbie

i havent tested passing form data to a frame page, but i think there should be no problem. did u put a <form> tag with the action pointing to the page name in the frame?

Bunkermaster

http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#edef-FORM

scroll down to "Attributes defined elsewhere" and see target 🙂

ace_gene

Thanks for the suggestion. Here are my codes. When I submit "b" in the form page, I was expecting that I could have the output "ab" in frame_a, however, I only got "a" as the output. The input was not passed into frame_a.
What's my problem?

In the form page, I have

frameset.htm:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>A frameset document</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<FRAMESET rows="50%,50%">
<FRAME name="frame_a" src="frame_a.php">
<FRAME name="frame_b" src="frame_b.php">
</FRAMESET>
</HTML>

frame_a.php

<?php
$a=$HTTP_POST_VARS["input"];
echo "a$a";
?>

😕

Bunkermaster

form action attribute should be .php and NOT .htm...

ace_gene

I've changed the form action attribute to frameset.php and changed the file frameset.htm to frameset.php, but still don't work.

Bunkermaster

that's not what i meant

<form action="frame_a.php" target="frame_a" method="post"> 
<input type="text" name="input"> 
<input type="submit" value="go"> 
</form>

try this

ace_gene

By using this code, after I press the submit button, it will lead to page frame_a.php instead of frameset page.
I think this will work when the form and the target are in the same frameset, but the problem I have is that the form is in a seperate page......

djumaka

Hi!

Here's how to menage this situation after all:

You've got a form into one of the frames and you want the page that operates with the data posted to load in some of the frames on the page. Assuming the furm subiting page is SUBMIT.PHP and the name of the frame is FRAME_1:

I'm just repeating the message sent before.

Djumaka

ace_gene

Again, this will work when the form and the target are in the same frameset. My question is

THE FORM IS IN A SEPERATE PAGE, by submitting the form data, I want to open a frameset page, while the data will be processed by one frame in the frameset.

Bunkermaster

try

ace_gene

Hi,Bunkermaster

Thank you very much for your help. But try what?

vahidi

hi,

you can use iframe tag instead frameset & frame tags,
therefore you access $input in iframe.htm and you can send it to the pages that it's the src of iframe by event of any tag.

I hope that this solution has usefull for you.😃

Bunkermaster

Originally posted by ace_gene
... it will lead to page frame_a.php instead of frameset ...

the use of "will" tends to indicate that you didn't try. Try, target attribute is to tell the form in which frameset (or window) you want the processing to be done.

Try, if you did and it didn't work, well... Let's try something else.

ace_gene

Originally posted by Bunkermaster

the use of "will" tends to indicate that you didn't try. Try, target attribute is to tell the form in which frameset (or window) you want the processing to be done.

Try, if you did and it didn't work, well... Let's try something else.

Sorry about my poor English🙂
Actually, I had tried and it did lead to page frame_a.php instead of the frameset page. If you don't tell in the action tag which frameset page to open , how will the machine know? I think it's possible that one have the same frame name in different frameset page, right? Or is there a way that I can write both frameset and framepage information in the target tag? Something else you can think of? Thanks!

Bunkermaster

Originally posted by Bunkermaster
...<form action="frame_a.php" [B]target="frame_a"[/B] method="post">...

this didn't work? with target... should tell your browser which frame is to be updated...
if it doesn't work i'll have a go at it. It's a W3C standard...