Question

I’m working out bugs that a coworker left on a page that posts a form to an API, and receives the XML response in an iframe, then parses through the children with XML. The page is working in IE9, Chrome, and Firefox, but not IE 8.

the form:

<form action="../../includes/functions/ADapi.php" method="POST" target="response" id="addForm" >
<fields galore></fields galore>
</form

<iframe name="response" id="response" style="display:none;" ></iframe>

the response:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
- <xmlresponse>
  <DateTime>2012-04-26 15:36:47</DateTime> 
  <confirmationcode>success</confirmationcode> 
  </xmlresponse>

the javascript:

function getResponse()
    {
        var myIFrame = document.getElementById("response");
        var content = myIFrame.contentWindow.document.getElementsByTagName('confirmationcode');
        var insertID = myIFrame.contentWindow.document.getElementsByTagName('id');
        //var sql = myIFrame.contentWindow.document.getElementsByTagName('SQL');
        var response = $(content).text();
        var responseID = $(insertID).text();
        //alert($(sql).text());

        if(response == "Success" || response == 'success')
        {
            if(mode == 'edit')
            {
                post_to_url("/edit-contact", {type: 'edit', cust: id, mod: 'update',field : '<?php if(isset($_POST['field'])){ echo $_POST['field']; }?>',operator : '<?php if(isset($_POST['operator'])){ echo $_POST['operator']; }?>',criteria : '<?php if(isset($_POST['criteria'])){ echo $_POST['criteria']; }?>'});
            }
            else
            {
                post_to_url("/edit-contact", {type: 'edit', cust: responseID, mod: 'insert',field : '<?php if(isset($_POST['field'])){ echo $_POST['field']; }?>',operator : '<?php if(isset($_POST['operator'])){ echo $_POST['operator']; }?>',criteria : '<?php if(isset($_POST['criteria'])){ echo $_POST['criteria']; }?>'});
            }

        }
        else
        {
            alert("Error!");
        }


    }

each time it runs, it pops up the alert with ‘Error!’

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

I went with rebuilding the page to use AJAX. It took longer than it needed to, but I transferred it over. As pointed out here, it doesn’t work the way it was set up, and needed something else to be done so it would be functional.