Relocating A parent page from IFRAME

[countdrak]

So I have an iframe in a page.

I load a form in the iframe and once the user hits submit the values are stored in a db and at that point I want to relocate my parent page to a new page.

Any ideas how I would do it after the insert.

Thanks.

 

[1DMF]

a child can call functions from within the parent page, and so if you had a function that changes the href of the parent page simply call it from the child.

Though if it's a form being submitted, you woul dneed the server to load the 'target' page which then called the function on the parent page, because if you navigate away from the current parent page, I assume you change the child(Iframe) and may stop the DB being updated.

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[countdrak]

Can you please give me an example. I cant seem to make it work.

 

[1DMF]

what code do you have already?

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[countdrak]

Maybe I am not calling it correctly.

In my PARENT PAGE I HAVE

<script language="javascript">

function callme()
	{ window.location.href = 'giftorderprocessed.cfm';}
</script>

A page is iframed in that parent page.

<iframe scrolling="no" src="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.mydomain.com/test1.asp"[/URL] align="left" frameborder="0" height="600" width="400" vspace="0" hspace="0"></iframe>

IN MY test1_action.asp page I have my update code and

ASP UPDATE
<script>
	
	  alert("Successful Update"); 
	  callme();
	</script>

But the alert shows up..the page never relocates! Thanks.

 

[1DMF]

You need to talk to the parent...

parent.callme();

I beleive should do it.


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[countdrak]

Did not work. Got an error.

Permission denied. Javascript Error. Using it on IE6

 

[1DMF]

well that's will be because the iframe page is on a different domain to the parent page.

you cannot run functions from one domain to another it is called 'cross domain security'.


here is an example showing it works when on the same domain

http://www.homeloanpartnership.com/test3.htm

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[countdrak]

Thanks a lot. Two files were in different directories and it wouldnt work!