I hate frames!!!!

[IBM]

For reasons I won't go into, I've been forced into using inline frames for a project....

Somebody shoot me please.

That's all. Thank you for your attention.

Seriously though, I've hit a problem. The frame makes up the interior of the page, while the login boxes reside outside the frame. When the customer logs in as part of the checkout process, the functionality is done within the frame, leaving the login boxes outside the frame unaware of what's going on. So in one part of the page the customer is logged in, but the rest of the page , to all intents and purposes, is logged out.

I can't find anywhere of targetting frames from within a form submission, so was wondering if there might be a Javascript command which would allow me to refresh the parent frame once the login process is complete.

Any ideas?

[Iain]

on your form submit put

onclick="submitForm()";

create a javascript function

function submitForm()
{
window.parent.<name_of_frame>.location.reload();
}

substitute <name_of_frame> for your frame

[Iain]

or better yet put it on the onsubmit of the form rather than the submit button

[IBM]

Cheers Iain, although if I put it on the submit state, the login action will not yet have taken place....so I'll put it on the onload state of the page after the login screen and see if that works.

Thanks again.

[Iain]

Just watch you don't end up in an infinite loop then

[Ramedge]

css/<div> + php = The best way
cant stand <iframes> they cause some many problems and look crap

[IBM]

Ooops, nope, can't do an onload, 'cause the html header content is in an include file, which means that every time the header include is called for every frame refernce it would reload everything.

Pllllluuuussss.....if the reload function effects the parent frame, which then reloads the inline frame, the frame content get's reset back to the original screen referenced by the intial frame call....

Yuk, Yuk, Yuk....why hasn't anybody shot me yet? Please put me out of my misery....

So, the only way around this as I see it is if I can get the page referenced in the frame to (through the submission of the form) target the parent window, where a new page will open, not in a frame, therefore refreshing the parent window, which then reopens the frame at the correct page.......click.....click.....BOOOOOOOM.....both barrels....

Anybody got any ideas how one would go about such a prodigious and ultimately pointless activity?

[directhex]

Anybody got any ideas how one would go about such a prodigious and ultimately pointless activity?

since you're being a sick puppy? with document.write javascript!

[Stoo]

javascript... *shudder*

[Iain]

just have the iframe thats loaded by the parent be part of an if statement so

load not logged in page
enter login details
post form in iframe to form handler
form handler logs you in, sets a session var and then calls javascript to load the parent
parent loads, checks if statement, sees that user is logged in and loads alternative page into iframe

[Funkstar]

css/<div> + php = The best way
cant stand <iframes> they cause some many problems and look crap

yeah, what he said. Fake the iFrame and make it all one big page (cuts down on the HTTP requests as well). use the hight attribute for <div> and i think scrolling as well (been a while since i did any of this.

[Iain]

I'm sure he's using the iframe as you can define a source for it which you can't do with a div. At least I hope he is, there is no other reason to use an iframe.....

[IBM]

The frames were part of the existing project, and I haven't got enough time to rip them out....

Eventually got the thing to work, but had to spend an afternoon trying to fix a bug where the reload command reloads the parent page, but the iFrame gets directed to the initial page specified the first time it loaded....despite the use of an IF statement which according to my test outputs is working fully....

So after three hours of writing out every parameter and stripping out chunks of code, I run it through IE and it works fine. Turns out it's a firefox issue (although more likely a 'my coding' issue) and for the life of me I can't figure out what's going on. I'm going to load it up over the weekend and see if I can't get any Hexites scratching their heads over it too....