reading the contents of a frame from another

[virtual_odin]

I want to create a frames page where one frame is a php script (triggered by a form button) which reads the content of the other frame.  The script will look for certain patterns, eg images, links, etc.

 

Any suggestions gratefully received.

[neel_basu]

So whats teh problem ??

[virtual_odin]

I want the frame I am extracting from to be the current frame having navigated there say from a search engine, so in the code I don't know what it is.  I guess therefore what I am asking is how do I dig out the actual address of the second frame?

 

Here's the idea (not working...)

 

http://sandbox.club-host.com/pic.php

[Lumio]

You can do that with Javascript.

Maybe that works:

<input type="button" onclick="alert(window.document.getElementByName('mainFrame').location.href)" value="get url" />

[virtual_odin]

Thanks Lumio.  You are on to the right track, I think.  I had not thought to use JavaScript.  But I get an error

window.document.getElementByName is not a function

when I run your suggestion.  Any ideas?

[kathas]

the function Lumio might want to say is document.getElementById('')

 

so window.document.getElementById('mainFrame')

and add to the HTML tag id="mainframe"

 

and then you can get the HTML content using

window.document.getElementById('mainFrame').innerHTML

 

[Lumio]

But also getElementByName should work. Well! Try it I don't know so.

[virtual_odin]

Then I get the error

window.document.getElementById("mainFrame") has no properties

[Lumio]

I didn't test it... but maybe this works:

alert(parent.mainFrame.location.href);

[virtual_odin]

I'm really grateful but now the error is

Error: uncaught exception: Permission denied to get property Location.href

[Lumio]

I found out, that you only can use that with sites of your server.

If it's a different site, you don't have permission to it.