[RESOLVED] extract form values from ajax or iframe

ive tried using ajax and getting the responsetext
ive also tried loading an iframe and extracting the form details from that iframe

but no matter what i try i cant get it to work

here are the 2 separate set of code im trying to get to work.
if you can fix them great, if you got something else that will work, i would gladly use it

the second page is on the same domain, so there is no cross domain errors or anything

[code]
window.onload = function()
{
var createIframe = document.createElement(‘iframe’);
createIframe.setAttribute(‘src’,’/path’);
createIframe.onload = function()
{
alert(‘hello’);
alert(createIframe.document.forms[1].first_name.value);
alert(createIframe.forms[1].first_name.value);
alert(window.frames[0].document.forms[1].first_name.value);
}
document.getElementById(‘iframeholder’).appendChild(createIframe);
}
[/code]

[code]
function getXMLHTTPRequest()
{
var req = false;
try
{
req = new XMLHttpRequest(); /* e.g. Firefox */
}
catch(err1)
{
try
{
req = new ActiveXObject(“Msxml2.XMLHTTP”); /* some versions IE */
}
catch(err2)
{
try
{
req = new ActiveXObject(“Microsoft.XMLHTTP”); /* some versions IE */
}
catch(err3)
{
req = false;
}
}
}
return req;
}

var myRequest = getXMLHTTPRequest();

var http_request = false;
function makePOSTRequest(url, parameters) {
http_request = false;
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) { // Mozilla, Safari,…
http_request = new XMLHttpRequest();
if (http_request.overrideMimeType) {
http_request.overrideMimeType(‘text/html’);
}
} else if (window.ActiveXObject) { // IE
try {
http_request = new ActiveXObject(“Msxml2.XMLHTTP”);
} catch (e) {
try {
http_request = new ActiveXObject(“Microsoft.XMLHTTP”);
} catch (e) {}
}
}
if (!http_request) {
//alert(‘Cannot create XMLHTTP instance’);
return false;
}
http_request.onreadystatechange = alertContents;
http_request.open(‘POST’, url, true);
http_request.setRequestHeader(“Content-type”, “application/x-www-form-urlencoded”);
http_request.setRequestHeader(“Content-length”, parameters.length);
http_request.setRequestHeader(“Connection”, “close”);
http_request.send(parameters);
}
function alertContents() {
if (http_request.readyState == 4) {
if (http_request.status == 200) {
//alert(http_request.responseText);
result = http_request.responseText;
//document.getElementById(‘addfriend’).innerHTML = result;
} else {
//alert(‘There was a problem with the request.’);
}
}
}

function callAjax(){
var url=”PATH/TO/SCRIPT”;
myRequest.open(“GET”,url,true);
myRequest.onreadystatechange=responseAjax;
myRequest.send(null);}

function responseAjax(){
if(myRequest.readyState==4){
if(myRequest.status==200){
//alert(“The server said: “+myRequest.responseText);
var div = document.createElement(‘div’);
div.innerHTML = myRequest.responseText;

var val = div.forms.form1.first_name;

alert(val);

}

}
else
{
//failure
}
}
callAjax();
[/code]

thanks

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