XMLHttpRequest and new frame?

[Geoff Cox]

Hello,

I am trying to get XMLHttpRequest etc to send a javascript variable to
a php file which will search a MySQL database but I want the results
to appear in a different frame.

How can I do this?!

Using a different approach I can get this to work.

window.parent.frameright.location.href = etc

where the different frame is called frameright.

I need an equivalent method with

function startRequest(url) {
createXMLHttpRequest();
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = handleStateChange;
xmlHttp.open("GET",url,true);
xmlHttp.send(null);
}

In other words how do I get frameright as the target for the above
url?

Ideas please?

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Tom Cole]

Hello,

I am trying to get XMLHttpRequest etc to send a javascript variable to
a php file which will search a MySQL database but I want the results
to appear in a different frame.

How can I do this?!

Using a different approach I can get this to work.

window.parent.frameright.location.href = etc

where the different frame is called frameright.

I need an equivalent method with

function startRequest(url) {
createXMLHttpRequest();
xmlHttp.onreadystatechange = handleStateChange;
xmlHttp.open("GET",url,true);
xmlHttp.send(null);
}

In other words how do I get frameright as the target for the above
url?

Ideas please?

Cheers

Geoff

Why not just have your handleStateChange function (in the same frame)
receive the value and then send the value to your other frame? AFAIK
there is no "target" value on xmlhttprequests.

 

[Geoff Cox]

Why not just have your handleStateChange function (in the same frame)
receive the value and then send the value to your other frame? AFAIK
there is no "target" value on xmlhttprequests.

OK - how do you send the value to the other frame?

Cheers

Geoff

 

[Tom Cole]

OK - how do you send the value to the other frame?

Cheers

Geoff

You access other frames through their names.

If the frame you want to pass the value to is in the same frameset,
then you can call parent.<other_frames_name>.method(value) to pass
that value to the "method" in the "other_frame_name".

If it is in another frameset, you can use top to get to the top of the
frame tree.

HTH.

 

[ASM]

Geoff Cox a écrit :

Hello,

I am trying to get XMLHttpRequest etc to send a javascript variable to
a php file which will search a MySQL database but I want the results
to appear in a different frame.

why would you have to use XHR to send result from a form to a frame ?

Basic JS does it very well

<form action="searchSQL.php" target="myFrame" method=post>