Is there a solution for this ?

gijs

Hi,

I'm fairly new to php. Just started a couple of weeks ago.
I'm in search for a solution for the following situation.

I start with a framed site: catalog.php which contains
1) navagition.php (leftframe)
2) intro.php (rightframe)

From navigation.php I use a link to pass variables to the rightframe and call overview.php which contains a list of articles.

1) a link in overview.php activates display.php
2) display.php returns a pdf-file stored in a blob.

This works fine, but I instead I would like to do the following in display.php:

include("display_blob.php"); ==>displays the pdf
include("footer.php"); ==> here i would present a link to go back to overview.php

Problem is that Acrobat Reader takes up the whole page and footer.php is not displayed.

Probabely framing display.php would be the answer?

But, how would I pass the variable $_GET['sub_cat_id'] from the link in overview.php to the framed display.php which has for example:
a)display_blob.php (topframe)
b)footer.php (bottomframe)

The variable has to end up in display_blob.php and even if possible also in footer.php

Anybody some suggestions ?

Help would be appreciated,

Thanks,

Gijs

James_McMurray2

You could pass it as $_COOKIE["myvariable"]. and use setcookie to initialize it.

gijs

Thanks for the reply,

As it is not a commercial cataolog, simply technical data files I wanted to avoid using cookies.

Found a solution:

<?php
// Check if the variable region_id is set
if (isset($_GET['article_id'])) {
?>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<frameset rows="50,*,50" border="0">
<frame name="top" src="header.php" marginwidth="10" marginheight="10" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0">
<frame name="center" src="display_blob.php?<?=$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']?>" marginwidth="10" marginheight="10" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0">
<frame name="bottom" src="footer.php" marginwidth="10" marginheight="10" scrolling="auto" frameborder="0">
</frameset>
<body>
</body>
</html>
<?php
 }
?>

The key is: <?=$_SERVER['QUERY_STRING']?>
Don't forget the preceding "?"

Should work also with arrays and with the forms using the "get" method.

Thanks,

Gijs