[thelist] How to post form results into a specific frame page?

Jody Cleveland cleveland at winnefox.org
Thu Jul 10 15:24:51 CDT 2008




On 7/10/08 3:20 PM, "Matt McKeon" <matt at camadro.com> wrote:

> Jody Cleveland wrote:
>> The page the form is on doesn't have any frames involved at all. I'd like to
>> pass the results to the page
>> http://beta.menashalibrary.org/sites/beta.menashalibrary.org/themes/salamand
>> er/searchframe.html
>> 
>> With the framename of mainFrame on that page.
>> 
>> Does that make sense at all?
>> 
>> - jody
>> 
>> 
>> On 7/10/08 2:23 PM, "erik mattheis" <gozz at gozz.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> <form target="other frame">
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Jody Cleveland <cleveland at winnefox.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> So my question is, how do I get a form to pass the results to a frame on a
>>>> completely different page?
>>>> - jody
>> 
> 
> This is a little fuzzy to me what you want, but let me put this out there.
> 
> Create a page (search.php) and post your left hand search to it.
> Have (search.php) create the frameset pointing to the urls you want
> including the search query as part of the url.
> 
> 
> Then when the page loads, the results from the search engine should load
> in one of the frames.

That sounds like what I'd like to do. What would I put in search.php to
create the frameset when submit is pressed?

- jody




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