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IkoIko -> PayPal and Iframes (4/21/2008 19:29:49)

And they say there is no hell :) I have a page that has one iframe. The left side is the static menu, the right the iframe - where pages load.

A menu item on the left calls a "Donate" page that opens in the iframe and that page has a link to Donate via PayPal.
The link to the Donate at PayPal page works OK.

I want PayPal to open in the iframe - that's not a problem, but I want the return page from PayPal to open in the iframe.

As it is, the iFrame link to paypal opens properly in the Iframe, people Donate and click the submit which should take them to the Than you page in the iFrame, but it doesn't, it open a new window.


Help?




jaybee -> RE: PayPal and Iframes (4/21/2008 19:46:11)

I have a feeling that's because Paypal doesn't deal with frames. It just loads a page and a frame is not a page. There are many other good reasons not to use frames.

Frames are Evil
Frames - problems and solutions



IkoIko -> RE: PayPal and Iframes (4/21/2008 20:54:32)


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ORIGINAL: jaybee

I have a feeling that's because Paypal doesn't deal with frames. It just loads a page and a frame is not a page. There are many other good reasons not to use frames.

Frames are Evil
Frames - problems and solutions



I know what PayPal does - that wasn't my question but I guess you needed an in to attack frames.

Only evil people make frames evil. Don't be angry with frames, be spiteful of evil people and their evil frames.

I make iFrames (little different than "frames") work and work well. Then again - I'm not evil.




jaybee -> RE: PayPal and Iframes (4/22/2008 8:21:42)

But you can't get it to work. You have a choice, keep banging your head on the desk trying to get it to work when nobody appears to have a solution, or, bite the bullet and use includes or whatever instead of frames.

Those links are not mine. They are just some of the sites around the web from highly respected developers who have had major problems with frames and are listing what those were for the benefit of people who are having trouble now.

If you're determined to continue on the frames path, good luck.



IkoIko -> RE: PayPal and Iframes (4/22/2008 12:00:30)


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ORIGINAL: jaybee

But you can't get it to work. .......................


Actually, it does work. During the furor over Frames, I found that Flashation has a built in allowance for it's flash menu program to open links in a iframe. It's short, sweet, quick, saves bandwidth, doesn't have to load the same thing more than once (menu) and works and in testing, the sky didn't fall after all.


Good thing the "brainchild of one of the admins" took frames into consideration.

Thanks for your - experience.



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