Javascript

[blsilks]

Does anybody know of any javascript that allows you to pull variables from a form on some other webpage and display them in a table on your web page?  I have a webpage that shows certain statistics and I have made a link that when you click on it, it opens the page in a new window, fills in all of the data fields and then submits while everything is hidden and then displays the statistics that I am interested in.

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<td border="0" bordercolor="#6B8EAE"><a href="javascript:document.statsform.submit()"><font size="3"><b><u>Whatever Stats</u></b></font></a></td>
<form name="agentform" ACTION="http://www.whateveer.com/stats" METHOD="POST" target="Whatever_Stats">
<input type="hidden" NAME="ap_num" value="245,251,256,257,258,259">
<input type="hidden" NAME="node" value="4"></form>

What I need is a way to pull the data from the other page that has just populated and then display it on my page that way I dont have to click submit or anything like that.  I just want to display the data in a table.

[deathshadow]

Javascript cannot read data from another file - doesn't work. You MIGHT be able to pull it off though by loading the other web page into an iframe transparantly, then using the document.window.contents object, although I don't think that will work in anything other than IE. (even then, while I know you can write to the contents, I'm not sure about reading from it)

Realistically you should probably be writing out your tabulated data to either a .txt file or a SQL database, then generating your various pages to display it in Perl or PHP.

Oh, btw, shouldn't this be in the Scripting forum?

[[Unknown]]

Actually, you could use XmlHttpRequest, but... browser support is a little shifty.

--> Scripting Help.

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