How do I do this...

evo4ever

Hey ppl. I finally got my HTML editor form using frames working.... to a certain extent heh. What I want to is the form is auto submit it's intial values! how do I do it?

My code is as follows:

Form Frame:

<?php
$html = "<html>";
$body = "<body";
$endbody = "</body>";
$endhtml = "</html>";
?>

The form:

<form name="form1" method="post" action="tryhtml_basic_right.php" target="mainFrame">
  <p>
    <input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Display Results &gt;">
  </p>
  <p> 
    <textarea name="htmlbox" cols="50" rows="25" id="htmlbox">
<?php echo HTMLSpecialChars($html); ?>

<?php echo HTMLSpecialChars($body); ?>

hi

<?php echo HTMLSpecialChars($endbody); ?>

<?php echo HTMLSpecialChars($endhtml); ?>
</textarea>
  </p>
  </form>

The Results frame:

<?php echo $_POST["htmlbox"]; ?>

I want "hi" to display in the results frame before the user submits the form! like auto submit! if you look at w3schools: http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_basic
you can see what I mean!

My version: http://www.evostation.com/tryit/html_basic.php

Thx in advance

diego25

The form in the W3Schools website doesn't have auto submit...so I don't really know what you want. How do you know when people are done typing? Are you just gonna submit every second? If you are, that's not very efficient since it'll use a lot of bandwidth and it will add unnecessary load to the web server.

Diego

evo4ever

Ok. How did w3schools get the text from the form into the results page before the user submits it? If they just put the text in the results page using html, then how does it disappear from the results page when you submit something different?

juschillinnow

I'm not sure what you guys are talking about, but from what I gather....

You have a form on a page and maybe a form later on in the page each with similar values. After the user fills in the first form, you want to fill in the other form for them.....

Is that correct?

If so, then you can use javascript!

<form name=myForm1>
<input type=text name=firstName1 value=<?echo $firstName1?>>
<input type=text name=lastName1 value=<?echo $lastName1?> onChange="javascript:document.this.myForm2.firstName2.value=document.this.myForm1.firstName1.value; document.this.myForm2.lastName2.value=document.this.myForm1.lastName1.value;">
</form>

<form name=myForm2>
<input type=text name=firstName2 value=<?echo $firstName2?>>
<input type=text name=lastName2 value=<?echo $lastName2?> 
</form>

Forget it if that's not what you want.

you may have to take out the .this. I don't remember.

evo4ever

lol. you don't know what we r talking about! What I have made is a HTML Editor. Go here to see it: www.evostation.com/tryit/html_basic.php
what I want is the intial value "hi" to appear in the action (results) page. It can't be normal HTML in the action page becuase if you submit something different "hi" will remain in the results page! Get what I mean?

Rodders

If all you want is to see "Hi" on the results page first time through, why don't you create an HTML page that does just that. Then change your html_basic.php <FRAME> definition like so:

  <frame src="hi_text.html" name="mainFrame">

Your HTML form will still send it's results to mainFrame so all will be OK.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by Rodders
If all you want is to see "Hi" on the results page first time through, why don't you create an HTML page that does just that.

That would be it; W3Schools doesn't need to have the initial sample auto-submitted in order to display it - they already know what it says. All they need to do is check to see if there was a submission: if there was, use the HTML it carries to fill out the textfield and the render frame, if there wasn't, chuck the default up instead.