Refreshing an IFrame inside an external browser window

[bnashenas1984]

Hi everyone
I'v seen several websites doing what I'm asking now but I don't know how they do it.

Lets say we have an E-commerce website that has a shopping cart inside an IFrame which shows what products have been added.

Users should be able to add comments for each product inside the shopping cart (in the Iframe) .

When the user clicks on the product a new popup window opens which allows him to add the comment and then save.
But how can I refresh the IFrame after the user has saved the comment inside the external window?

I know there are other ways to do this.. Like refreshing the Iframe each X second but I don't think this is the logical way.

I need to do exactly what I described. refreshing an IFrame inside an external browser window.

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated

Thanks / Behzad

[bnashenas1984]

re: refreshing an iframe inside an external browser window

Hi again
Finally I found an answer to my question.
I post it here for others who might have the same problem.

This is possible to refresh the OPENER window using JavaScript.

Here is what I did :

Lets say we have a page with an IFrame in it

<a href="javascript:window.open('popup.php','terms',' width=400, height=260, left=200, top=200');void('');">
Open popup window
</a>

<iframe name = 'frame1' src="iframe_inside.php" width="500" height="500">
</iframe>

We can refer to the first page as (Opener)

popup.php

<input type='button' value='refresh Iframe' onclick="window.opener.frames['frame1'].location.reload(true);">

<input type='button' value='close window' onclick="window.close();">

Hope it helps