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Jan 13.2006

Hi

I need to set a PayPal auto return page to a page within a frameset (mainFrame). Can anyone tell me how to include this in a URL. I seem to remember it being something like…

[url]http://www.whatever.com/some.htm?target=_mainFrame[/url]

or something. Does this look right?

TIA

Russ

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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYJan 13.2006 — <i>
</i>&lt;a href="http://whatever.com" target="mainFrame"&gt;http://whatever.com&lt;/a&gt;


don't forget to set your doctype to frameset

or to add a frameset doctype if your don't have any

http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html
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@Digital_PimpauthorJan 13.2006 — Thanks LiLcRaZyFuZzY

I know this method but I did't make myself clear. In Paypal you can set a return URL once a customer has made a purchase. You must enter the URL in a text field which doesn't give me the choice of a destination frame...only a URL (http://www.whatever.co.uk/success.htm). I want it to return the customer to the success page WITHIN the frameset.

thanks anyway

Russ
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@jalarieJan 13.2006 — You could even shorten it to:

http://www.whatever.com/some.htm?mainFrame

Within the "some.htm" page, use 'onload="ReFrame();"' on the main frameset tag to set off the "ReFrame" function. Include a default "src" for the target frame just in case the user doesn't have Javascript. The function could look like this:

function ReFrame() {

Par=document.location.search.substring(1); // get the page name

window.frames['target_frame_name'].location=Par;

}
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@LiLcRaZyFuZzYJan 13.2006 — ok, you might have to use a server side language for this

even better, you could use server-side include and drop the frames
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@Digital_PimpauthorJan 13.2006 — Thanks all

Will try the Javascript solution Jalarie.

Thanks again LiLcRaZyFuZzY but the frame is there because there is a music player in it. Frames is the only way to have the music playing without being interupted other than opening more browser windows or using popups.

cheers

Russ :¬)
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