Passing HTML POST data to embedded <iframe>s
Passing HTML POST data to embedded <iframe>s
Friday 10 August 2007 6:23:48 pm - 1 reply
Hello!
I've got a site with quite a lot of external pages embedded into my site. Therefore I've created a content class "external_page" with attributes "title" and "url", which are embedded in my site with following (pseudo-) code
<h1>{$node.title}</h1>
<iframes src="{$node.url}" name="external_frame">
This solution allows me to nicely wrap my site's design around the external_pages. However, I now have to pass HTML POST data from my own pages down to embedded pages. I tried to achieve this by specifying the target-parameter of the HTML form-tag. E.g. on my frontpage I've got a search box
<form action="http://www.mysite.com/other_url" target="external_frame" method="post"> ...<input>... </form>
which calls "other_url" on my site with the embedded iframe I want to pass my data to.
However, it does not work, no data is passed down to the iframe. Sadly I'm also limited to method="post", GET-Parameters are all ignored.
Any hints available?
Thanks in advance,
Reinhard
Friday 10 August 2007 9:14:14 pm
Hi.
I really think you can't send post data to your iframe, only get parameters.
You will have to develop a little extension (module) which creates the post parameters returns the other web site page. You can do this with a javascript form or with AJAX (http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/connection/post.html for example).
So, your iframe code should look like this:
<h1>{$node.title|wash}</h1>
<iframes src="htt.p://www.mysite.com/makerediction/(url)/www.othersite.com/(param1)/value1/(param2)/value2" name="external_frame">
Modified on Friday 10 August 2007 9:15:14 pm by Nicolas Lescure
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