Forwarding POST info from a PHP script

[email protected] ("David Barrett") Tue, 7 Jan 2003 14:26:20 -0000
Newsgroups	php.lang
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
I want to be able to retrieve POST variable in one PHP script (which is
straight-forward) and then send these from the script to another one
returning the processed input.

I have written a script that will parse a frames-based page and render it as
a flat page (i.e. all frames displayed as a table in one HTML file) - this
is so that I can create a website using frames, and still let browsers that
don't support frames to access it without my having to create a separate
version of the site.

e.g.:
http://www.redradish.co.uk/rr/index.htm (frames based site)
http://www.redradish.co.uk/php/framesprocessor.php?Frameset=http://www.redra
dish.net/rr/index.htm&RenderMethod=1&MainFrame=main&AllHead=1
(the same site
rendered as single page).

The problem is that if in the frames-based site one of the frames is a form
submission, I need to be able to send this data to the original form and
retrieve the output to display in the rendered page.

e.g.
http://www.redradish.co.uk/php/framesprocessor.php?Frameset=http://www.redra
dish.net/rr/index.htm&TargetName=main&Target=http://www.redradish.net/rr/con
tact/contactF.htm&MainFrame=main&RenderMethod=1&LinkSearch=1&AllHead=1&Debug
=1
(this is a page that has a contact form).

I can't find any information on how to forward such a request.

The script in question is located at:
http://www.redradish.co.uk/php/framesprocessor.php

It uses these variables (passed using GET or POST):
  Frameset   frameset page.  This needs to be parsed and a static HTML page
created.
  Target   (optional) full URL of page to be displayed in frmae named
TargetName.
  TargetName  (optional) name of the frame that $Target should appear in.
  MainFrame   (optional) is the frame from which header info, etc. is
taken.
      Default is first frame.
  AllHead  (optional) If set (is 1 or more), copies <HEAD> content from all
frames.
  RenderMethod  (optional) defines how the frameset is to be represented:
        1 - All frames dumped into new page in order they appear in
frameset.
        2 - tables are used to attempt to recreate original format
      Default is 1.
  LinkSearch  (optional) how links are replaced:
       1 - Only specific tags are replaced
       2 - Anything within quotes (' or ") that contains document path is
replaced
      Default is 1.
  Debug   If set (greater than 0), debug info is added in comments.

It works to a good degree on most frames-based sites, but does have a couple
of failings (such as the one mentioned) that I would like to overcome.

The other problem is handling JavaScript in e.g. <frame
src="JavaScript:openpage(xx)">.  There is no way to process JavaScript in
PHP that I am aware of - does anyone have a workaround for this?  i.e. so
that my script can process the JavaScript function and retrieve the relevant
page for inclusion in the rendered page.


Hope someone can help!

Thanks.

Dave