getting mouse focus without onload

[yasmena]

i need help in my project,
i need to get the mous focus on the username text field in the admin page
but the problem is the body & head of the page is in another page
so when i use onload="focus();" and get the element by id e cant see it

is their any other way to get mouse focus without using the onload method???

[R0bb0b]

i need help in my project, i need to get the mous focus on the username text field in the admin page but the problem is the body & head of the page is in another page so when i use onload="focus();" and get the element by id e cant see it is their any other way to get mouse focus without using the onload method???

You mean like frames?

[yasmena]

what do u mean by frames ??
i mean i have the and tags in a script called X.php and the body of this script includes a script called (admin.php) this admin.php is the one containing my text field i want to get focus ON. that's what i mean

[R0bb0b]

what do u mean by frames ?? i mean i have the and tags in a script called X.php and the body of this script includes a script called (admin.php) this admin.php is the one containing my text field i want to get focus ON. that's what i mean

That should work just fine. Post your scripts.

[Will Gresham]

If I am understanding you correctly, the following should work:
In the script containing the add something like this inside the tags:

<?
$currentFile = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"];
$parts = Explode('/', $currentFile);
$currentFile = $parts[count($parts) - 1];

if($currentFile == 'admin.php') {
  //put JS code here
}
?>

This will mean that the JavaScript code will only be loaded with the admin.php script and you can then use the onload function.

[Shanti C]

<?
$currentFile = $_SERVER["SCRIPT_NAME"];
$parts = Explode('/', $currentFile);
$currentFile = $parts[count($parts) - 1];

if($currentFile == 'admin.php') {
  //put JS code here
}
?>

Instead we can use simply:

$currentFile=basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

[Will Gresham]

Instead we can use simply:

$currentFile=basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);

That would be the better way, yes. Forgot about that one :)

[yasmena]

U know i tried what u said but nothing happens ??
i want to ask sth.
does the admin.php script needs 2 be in the same directory as the script X.php ..
and i also copied it to the same directory but nothing happens

[R0bb0b]

U know i tried what u said but nothing happens ?? i want to ask sth. does the admin.php script needs 2 be in the same directory as the script X.php .. and i also copied it to the same directory but nothing happens

It doesn't matter, it's all html when it come out anyway. I can include 100 php files from any directory I want and the javascript dom has access to the whole page. Again, post your scripts.

[yasmena]

<? ob_start();?>
<?session_start() ;

include("include/connection.php") ;

?>

Untitled

<?

$currentFile= basename($_SERVER['PHP_SELF']);
$parts = Explode('/', $currentFile);
$currentFile = $parts[count($parts) - 1];
if($currentFile == 'login.php')
{
echo " ";

}

?>

homesearchhelp

<?

if($_SESSION['utype']=='admin')

{

?>

welcome <? echo $_SESSION['uName'] ;?>Log out

<? include("admin/includes/links.php") ;?>

<? include("admin/includes/adminlinks.php") ;?>

<?

}

else

{

include("login.php") ;

}

?>

.....
the LOGIN.PHP (or ADMIN.PHP)
<?

if($_GET['mode']=='')

{

?>

<?

if($_GET['log']=='fail')

{

?>

Sorry this username or password must be wrong

<?

}

?>

Username

Password

<?

}

else if($_GET['mode']=='submit')

{

$UserName = $_POST['UserName'];

$Password = $_POST['Password'];

$encPassword=md5($Password);

$sql="SELECT * FROM admin where username='$UserName' and password='$encPassword' " ;

$result=mysql_query($sql);

if($array=mysql_fetch_array($result))

{

$_SESSION['uName']=$array[1];

$_SESSION['uID']=$array[0] ;

$_SESSION['utype']='admin' ;

?>

<?

}

else

{

?>

<?

}

}

?>

[R0bb0b]

You have two lines that look like this:
document.form1.getElementById('1').focus();

Once I changed it to: document.getElementById('1').focus();

It worked fine.

[yasmena]

Im So Glad It Works With You :)
But i dont know why its not working with mee
inaddition to that
at the bottom there is a message that says "Error On Page"

[R0bb0b]

Open up the error console of firefox, clear the errors out of it, do a test run of your application and tell me what the errors are.

[yasmena]

Excuse Me But im not using FireFox im using Opera and IE7 ..
and i dont know how to open the error console

[R0bb0b]

I don't know about opera since I do most of my debugging in firefox and ie, but the error console in firefox is under the tools -> error console. It is very helpful when debugging javascript.