Re: Page Values?

on 1/4/01 6:17 PM, Chris Anderson {Programmer Always} at chrisderson@ameritech.net wrote: > Is it possible to post data to nother page and get a value W/O leaving the > current page? If you're not willing to leave the page at all, and would consider frames, you can add a small frame somewhere in your frameset. Then target that frame with a form submission or link and have the PHP file that generates the content for that small frame actually generate javascript that passes the necessary information back to the original page. Finish off the java script with a snippet to take the small frame back to it's base page so it looks nice. I've done this before for form validation that needed database access and it worked well. Things to watch out for: Frames in Netscape 4 don't seem to like to get really small. In IE, a frame can be 1 pixel but in netscape it looked like about 5 px minimum. Also, this isn't foolproof validation because a person can submit the form before the validation process is finished. You'll of course still want to do checking on the back end as well if there is a data-integrity issue... Hope this helps, Geoff