How to optionally generate frames

Anon

Hello,

what I have now is fairly straightforward html form, which launches a PHP script upon submit and the "result page" opens up. Everything works great.

What I'd like to accomplish is to have it optionally possible (e.g. by a checkbox on the form) for the result page to open up as a top window on a frameset (to make it possible to view the links of the "result page" on the lower frame).

And yes, there are quite a few form variables to be passed to the script which generates the "result page".

Is there an elegant (or brute-force) way to do this?

sarahk

Yeah, that should be ok.

You'll see lots of script examples with the same script being used to generate a form and to process the results.

You'd have a similar concept. After submitting you'd have a look at the frames request. If "isset" and checked then you'd generate the frames but the two pages would be the script with different variables passed - including an "action" which might be "results" or "hyperlinks". this time you'd only generate the content.

However if "isset" and not checked you'd just process as if the "action" was "results".

HTH

Anon

the actual problem is as follows:
i have the check box "freim" on the form, which initiates the "frame show mode"

then in the beginning of the "result .php" i have following code
(actually included as "top.inc", could that be the problem?!?):

--
if (isset($freim)) {
if ($freim == "on") {
echo "<FRAMESET COLS='100%' ROWS='320,*'>";

 echo "<FRAME NAME='top' SRC=$PHP_SELF>";
 echo "<FRAME NAME='bottom' SRC='bottom.html'>";
 echo "</FRAMESET>";

} else {
echo "<title>Normal no-frame title</title>";
}
} else {
echo "<title>Normal no-frame title</title>";

}

It works great in the "no-frame" mode, but looses the contents of (form and global) variables in the "frame" mode (freim=on).

How do I get to see the variables?

--janne

Anon

Try this, it's too late for me to test it before I send it to you:

echo "<FRAME NAME='top' SRC='{$PHP_SELF}?whatever_variables_you want_to_pass'>";

echo "<FRAME NAME='top' SRC={$PHP_SELF}?{$QUERY_STRING}'>";

Good luck, good night

Anon

interesting:

when I pass the variables (either literally or with the $QUERY_STRING) the top frame displays nothing (is totally blank). Before the variable passing Netscape showed all the html code (and error for not having the variable values) in the top frame.

It seems that after adding the variables, for some reason
-my Netscape 4.7 doesn't regard the top frame as frame at all, but (incorrectly) shows the "page source" on the top frame (that's why the display is blank). Even the right mouse click is "view source", not "view frame source".
-IE 5 shows only on the top part of the page

Still a bit confused..