php form and frames

tovaness

hey all.
is it possibe to pass form data from a page(non-frame) and sent it to a frame page where the top frame is .html and the bottom is the .php prog that will display the form data?

i know how to get from one page to another using the <form action="blah.php"> tag, but when i use the tag to goto the frameset page e.g. <form action="frame.html">, i lose the form input. i have tried both POST and GET.

thx🆒

aksival

The problem is that the page you are passing the form info to has an HTML extension.

You are probably trying something like the following to retrieve the info in FRAME.HTML:

<?php

$info=$_POST["info"];

Since you are using PHP tags in an HTML file, the data will not be gathered, in fact, the entire tag will be ignored.

Change FRAME.HTML to FRAME.PHP and it should work.

tovaness

ya, in my time away from the forum, i tried a couple of different things.

what i have now is, form.php. when the submit button is hit it follows --

where testresult.php is the frames page and footer is the lower frame. it switchs to the testresult.php page ok, but nothing is displayed.

the form is real simple....

<option value="1">ADAMS</option>

<option value="2">ASHLAND</option>

the point being....its still not working. once i find a way to echo the "county" var, ill be able to get any form element to work.

thanks for the reply...

aksival

Try using POST rather than GET in the FORM tag.

Then retrieve the variable using $_POST

tovaness

just tried the the $_POST thing,

here is the code...

*form page*
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="testresult.php" target="footer" action=POST>
<select name="county" SIZE="1" checked="60">
<option value="0"></option>
<option value="1">ADAMS</option>
<option value="2">ASHLAND</option>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="B1">
</body>
</html>

*frame page
<html>
<head>
<title>New Page 2</title>
</head>
<frameset rows=",147">
<frame name="main" src="top.php">
<frame name="footer" scrolling="no" noresize target="main" src="bottom.php">
<noframes>
<body>
<p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

*form result page (bottom.php)*
<html>
<head>
<title>New Page 3</title>
<base target="main">
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo $_POST['county'];
?>
</body>
</html>

still doesnt work though....

Mordecai

Originally posted by aksival
The problem is that the page you are passing the form info to has an HTML extension.

This information MAY be correct, however, it probably isn't. This all depends on the configuration of the server, and whether it can read PHP in .HTML files.
When using Apache, this all relies on a line similar to:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

Tovaness: here's how you can conquer your problem. Your bottom HTML file will have to retrieve the information via GET, but the main frame (which actually has the data sent to it) will have to send information to the bottom frame.
This is done by setting the variables manually through the "target='something.html?var1=$var1value'". The information can then be retrieved by name, or by GET.

aksival

Two big problems:

I noticed that your FORM ACTION = "TESTRESULT.PHP", but it shows that you named the result page BOTTOM.PHP. Change the result page to TESTRESULT.PHP or change the FORM ACTION to BOTTOM.PHP.

Also, your code says:

It should say:

BTW, don't forget to close out your FORM tag on the FORM PAGE.

Let me know how that works!

tovaness

hey aksival,

your way works flawlessly if i were to go from one page to another.

what i'm trying to figure out is how to go from one page:

*form.php*********************************

<html>
<head>
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="testresult.php" target="footer" action="post">
<select name="county" SIZE="1">
<option value="0"></option>
<option value="1">ADAMS</option>
<option value="2">ASHLAND</option>
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

to a whole new page after the submit button is clicked.
this would be the "framed" page called:

*testresult.php*****************************

<html>
<head>
<title>New Page 2</title>
</head>
<frameset rows="*,147">
<frame name="main" src="top.php">
<frame name="footer" scrolling="no" noresize target="main" src="bottom.php">
<noframes>
<body>
<p>This page uses frames, but your browser doesn't support them.</p>
</body>
</noframes>
</frameset>
</html>

the framed page has 2 frames. the top frame named "main" loading top.php and the bottom frame named "footer" loading bottom.php.

the bottom.php is holds the code to display the form data.
(the "!isset" and "empty" are placed for validation purposes)

*bottom.php******************************

<html>
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
$a = $_POST['county'];
echo ("this is the bottom" . "<BR>");

if (!isset($a)) {

echo "the variable doesnt exist!";
}

elseif (empty($a)) {

echo "it exists but is empty!";
}

else {
echo "it exists but and contains something!";
}

echo ($a);

?>
</body>
</html>

this is what i'm trying to do. i have gone through all the feedback i got from this thread and had been searching for any kind of example with no luck. i believe this has to possible somehow. i can see the "county=" variable in the url when using the GET method, but i cant get it to the lower frame. i hope this makes it a little clearer and thanks for all your help!!!!

aksival

Ok, I see what you're saying now. As far as I know, there isn't really a way to redirect form variables to a second receiving page (like a frames page) without using a workaround.

What I would suggest is retrieving the data on TESTRESULT.PHP and then linking to the frames page like this:

$county=$_POST['county'];

and on the next page:

$county=$_GET['county'];

Hope this helps, and I apologize for not recognizing what you were actually trying to do! Good luck!

tovaness

thanks a lot aksival,

it works perfectly😃 😃 😃

man, all that work for one little piece of code!!!!!

thanks again.