Posted by Jeanette Shakespeare on 06/25/05 18:15

Is it possible to have a single form action open two pages in a split frame
or iframe?

What i have at the moment is a mainpage with a dropdown menu at the top
which pulls a list of assemblies from a mySQL database. On the lower half
of the page are two iframes next to each other (like pages of a book).

On selecting the required assembly in the dropdown (form action), it posts
to a page in an iframe (on the mainpage) which gets the result of a query to
build a listing of items in that assembly (so far it works).

I want to pull an associated picture and have it in the other iframe next to
the listing page (again on the mainpage so the dropdown menu is always
visible)). is this feasable.

my idea is to get the filename in the result at the same time as the parts
listing and put it in a variable, then somehow (in the url?) send it to the
picture page automatically which is targeted at the picture iframe which
will then embed the picture file defined in the variable. Is this feasable
with php, I dont think it is with plain HTML.

or am I going about this the wrong way?

thanks in anticipation.
(I'm not too bad at understanding HTML but only just started php and mySQL)

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