Re: Passing variable to a page in a frameset

> > > Hello, > > > > I've got a website here: > > http://beta.menashalibrary.org/about > > > > On every page, i've got a search box at the top. This search box searches > > the library's web catalog. The problem is, when someone searches, it > takes > > them away from the site. What I'd like to do is take what a person > searches > > for, and load it into the bottom frame of this page: > > > > > > http://beta.menashalibrary.org/sites/beta.menashalibrary.org/themes/salamander/searchframe.html > > > > Is there a way, with php, to take what someone puts in the search box and > > put the results into the bottom frame of a frameset when the originating > > page does not contain frames? > > > > - jody Bastien is right, this is more of a Javascript issue. It can be accomplished very easily by doing the following. Once the user enters the search criteria have the submit button/link call a javascript function like the following: function submitForm(var1,var2) { top.leftFrame.document.my_search.text1.value = var1; top.leftFrame.document.my_search.text2.value = var2; top.leftFrame.document.my_search.submit(); document.search_form.submit(); } And this would be your submit link: <a href="javascript:submitForm(document.search_form.var1.value,document.search_form.var2.value)">SEARCH</a>