mysite.com/index.php?page=about

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I am a total php newbie and need a bit of help with converting my site to php.

I want to have all the pages load into my main index.php in a frame. Need some guidance regarding frames as well, i usually just set up my sites using tables so im unsure on how they function exactly.

Any help you could give me would be great.. example code would be fantastic 🙂

I'm sorry if this has been asked a lot :o

sarah

It might help if we knew the following:

1) Why do you want to convert the site to PHP? If you need some of the functionality of PHP, you can just insert bits of code onto pages where you need them. (You will have to change the extension to .php unless .html will render PHP code.)

2)Why use frames? Search engines hate 'em, you can't really bookmark 'em...avoid 'em if you can.

If you still need help, be specific and we'll see what we can do...

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Alright, well i'm re-designing the website and converting it into an online graphic design portfolio. What i really want is something that will be easier to update Eg: when i want to add a new piece of work to the site's portfolio section.

Ideally i'd like everything to load into my index.php. Like when i click portfolio it would load where i have my news updates, for example. I just assumed i would have to use frames in order to do this 😕 or can i use tables to the same effect?

seanpaulcail

You could create a table within a table:

for example
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<table>
<tr>
<td><img src="portofio1">
</td>
</tr>

		<tr>
			<td> <img src="portfolio2">
			</td>
		</tr>
		<tr>
			<td><img src="portofio3"
			</td>
		</tr>
	</table>
</td>	
<td> //this would build the next collumn.
</td>

</tr>
</table>

The problem is that the second collumn would expand to equal the height of your portfolio column.
If your portfolio collumn is very long, you would have two very long collumns. To avoid having to scroll the entire page you would need to put the portfolio in a separate frame that would allow the page to remian static while you scroll through the portfolio section.

I could explain frames but instead I will point you to a sight that uses frames

http://www.aigalosangeles.org/

you should be able to read the source code and figure it out from there.

If you wanted to create a php administration script to update your portfolio by adding new images you would need to create a database with id #'s and links to images. Then you would need to extract the info from the database by looping through all the info.

But since you are using frames it would easy enough to just add another <tr><td>"newPortfolioImage"</td></tr> to the table in that frame.

Let me know if this helps

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The database idea sounds like what i want. I think it would work best with my needs. I think frames will be a bad idea anyway from what sarah said.

I also need help with how to link to my pages using php. Like how do i code this in: mysite.com/index.php?page=portfolio

It looks easy but i have no clue.

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For an example of what i mean look at: www.sensorstudios.com

The way that when you click a link, everything loads into the welcome area, that is what i would like to acheive.

seanpaulcail

Why not just use a regualr html link

your link

mysite.com/index.php?page=portfolio

passes the variable $portfolio as a value for the key "page" or something like that.

The you would need code to process the variable "portfolio.

for examlpe

$url = "show_book.php?isbn=".($row["isbn"]);

function do_html_url($isbn)

now the url will go to the show_book page which process the isbn, displaying the appropraite book

if you are showing a list of portfolios links on the index page
each item in the list will have a separate isbn or unique id number
then when someone clicks on the appropriate link they will be brought to the show_portfolio page where a particular item of the portfolio is shown that correponds to the isbn or unique portfolio id number. This would equal one portfolio piece per page.

then they would have to press a link to send them back to the portfolio list.

Unless of course you display all the links on your index page then post to the index page passing a variable upon which a function is run to display the appropriate portfolio piece.

If you're trying to not have your page upload each time the user clicks this may work, but I'm not sure. I know it can be done via javascript.

That leads to a new question. Can PHP do everything javascript does?

Surley you can simplify this with html.

Do you have an example site you are trying to copy?

Hope this helps

seanpaulcail

and whenever I click on a link it opens a new browser window.

In Flash you goto frame number or frame name and the page never reloads.

Are you sure this is the example site you wanted to show us?

http://www.sensorstudios.com/main.php

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Yes.

The only part thats flash is the navigational part.

seanpaulcail

I couldn't see it on netscape 4.7. In the netscape browser the frames didn't work and the web site would open new windows instead of placing info in a frame.

So that is frames.
You have a top frame and botom frame. The bottom frame is split in two.

I'm not sure if PHP can automatically load content into a table without updating the page. Frames on the otherhand will only update a specific frame, as you can see on the web site.

I know jaascript is good for doing what you want. I'm not sure about PHP.

Anybody know if this can be done in PHP?

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Hmm, no replies since last night..

Does anyone think they have a possible solution for my problem?

stew

ive got around it by using the switch function...

do you have msn, i found it too hard to understand at first, but i could try to explain it too you.

add stewmorg@hotmail.com if you want to talk about it

ElectricMessiah

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It appears to me that what you what to do can be acheived by using layers. You create a layer then use a Javascript event (OnClick) to call a php function which accesses the new content from the db and displays it in the layer.
This way the page will not be reloaded when you switch to the next item in the portfolio.