Hi,
That was a good example, so I finished it and added it to:
Henrik_Vaglin_Examples
Form_Submitting.html
http://www.richardinfo.com/?menu=examples&node=7
It's a "live" example, using a little php script.
BTW you can position a loadpanel as normal.
Cheers,
Richard Bennett
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Henrik Våglin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:23 AM
Subject: Re: [Dynapi-Help] Submitting Form Target to a DynAPI Layer
> An idea I haven't been able to fully evalute as of
> yet:
>
> If you don't want to reload the page you should use a
> a) loadpanel or b) iframe (no NS4.x compability
> though). Then you should only use a querystring (which
> you construct from the form values and put together
> with the url of the reciveing script) and load it -
> not go to in the loadpanel/iframe. Loadpanel isn't
> able to be positioned so you would probably want to
> put it inside of another dynlayer.
>
> something like this (not tested!)
>
> myFormLayer= new DynLayer()
> myFormlayer.setHTML("<form name='myForm'>Value1:<input
> type='text' name='value1'>Value2:<input type='text'
> name='value2'><input type='button'
> onclick='doPost'><//form>")
> DynAPI.document.addChild(myFormLayer)
>
> myOutputLayer = new DynLayer()
> myOutputLayerCanvas = new LoadPanel()
> DynAPI.document.addChild(myOutputLayer)
> myOutputLayer.addChild(myOutputLayerCanvas)
>
> doPost=function(){
>
eval(myOutputLayerCanvas.setURL(\'formhandler.cgi?value1=\'+myForm.value1+\'
&value2=\'+myForm.value2))
> }
>
> make sure you include all necessary DynAPI files; that
> the recieving script handles QueryStrings and output
> directly (no redirection or it will probably reload
> into the window depending on serverside method); that
> the data isn't topsecret (cause querystrings aren't as
> safe as using regular post method)
>
> let know if it works out for you.
>
> Henrik Våglin [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ]
>
> --- Ramon Buckland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi ..
> >
> > I wish to know how to submit a form to target a
> > different layer
> > from its orginating layer.
> >
> > eg: Two Layers on a page side-by-side
> > And a form is on one of those layers.
> >
> > I wish to submit the form to the other layer using
> > it
> > as the target in the form..
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
> >
> >
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> >
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