forcing parent window to open from iframe content.

webmaster_rp · Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 2

Hello,

i made a website wich haves an IFRAME inside. Its my index.htm. Inside my IFRAME i am going to open other pages like a.htm, b.htm, etc...

What i am trying to do is to open my website correctly, when inputing this address into my Browser "www.mywebsite.com/a.htm".

currently that will only display a.htm

Can anyone help me on this?

chrisxkelley · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 246

thats because you are only telling it to display a.htm when you type
www.mywebsite.com/a.htm

for the iframe tag, if you want a.htm to show up you have to set the src as

<iframe src="a.htm">

webmaster_rp · Joined: 22 Feb 2005 Posts: 2

Thanks for the help, but maybe my english wasnt good enough.

What i was trying to do was to avoid that, putting an adress like this www.mywebsite.com/a.htm, the browser only displayed only a.htm (instead of a.htm inside the index.htm like i want).

I found this an it solves partially my problem, when inserted in a.htm or other.:
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="javascript">
if (self==parent){document.write('<META HTTP-EQUIV="refresh" CONTENT="1; URL=index.htm">')}
</SCRIPT>

But what it still no works is, if i put www.mywebsite.com/b.htm this is gonna open the index page with a.htm inside i frame.
I think the problem is the IFRAME SRC="a.htm" in the index page i dont know how to solve it

chrisxkelley · Joined: 07 Dec 2004 Posts: 246

oh i see. you could try using php to solve your problem, if your server supports php. the url would be a bit longer though, if that's okay.

something like:
.http://mysite.com/index.php?page=a.htm

if you are doing it in a hyperlink, not something where your user types the address(basically if length is not a problem), then you should be fine.

the way it works is you use variables in the url to tell the page what to do.
in the url, make your variable. in this case, it's page.

.http://mysite.com/index.php?page=

what comes after the variable is the value it holds(aka the page you want)

.http://mysite.com/index.php?page=a.htm

so then in your index.htm page, for the ifrtame src, just call that variable:

<iframe src="<?PHP echo $page ?>">

what that does is get the variable from the url and "echo" or print out what the variable holds. so if you have .http://....index.php?page=a.htm, it will put a.htm in place of the <?PHP echo $page ?>.

Make sense? i hope so... haha, and hope this works for you.

Cheers,
Chris

Jon · Joined: 26 Aug 2005 Posts: 1

Ok - I'm not sure if I understand the problem description or proposed solution correctly, but I think I have a similar problem:

I am running a vBulletin forum. The main page to our site is not vB - and we don't want to go with a vB like portal (i.e. vBadvanced) - so what we thought we could do is use the news feature of vBadvanced, create a special page where only the news threads are listed and using a php INCLUDE script, simply add this page to the main site.

Well as it turns out. vB doesn't like competition with other header tags, so I get this error that prevents me from including this page like I planned:

"Unable to add cookies, header already sent."

So my next approach would be to try pulling this up in an iframe. Using a conventional iframe link, everything works fine - until I click on a url pertaining to the content of that iframe (such as "reply" to a news article). It then pulls up the entire vB forum inside this iframe which is not what I intended.

Is there a parameter I can add to the iframe code that forces all urls that are within an iframe to open up in the parent page(?) rather than in the iframe itself?

I can't change the vB code from _self to _parent obviously without affecting my entire forums. I thought perhaps there would be another way.

Thanks in advance for any help