how do you... Frames question

Zaaephod

Hi there, this is my first post here!

I'm no html or php expert by any means so please bear with me

I would be willing to code this in PhP or html.. (prefer not javascript)

Heres the deal

I have a frames page split right smack down the middle..
On the left side I have a site page loaded with my little 'submit links' page in it..

On the right side, I have lets say a search engine loaded..

The user browses in the right window, and when the arrive at the page they want to submit a link to, they click a button in the left frame (my page) and it either puts the URL into a variable, or saves it to a file (or whatever)

How do i get my page to grab the current url of the right side page exactly as it would appear in the address bar?

I would like this info to be put into a variable, to be added to a database (mySQL) ... i can handle that part .. its just getting the URL into a variable...

I can handle the database part of this no prob, but how do I get the url of the right window into a variable in the code on the page on the left?

Any ideas on this?

Thanks! Zaaephod

😃

drew010

you could have the page on the right, write to a file using fopen and fwrite "$SERVER['HTTP_HOST']" . "$SERVER['REQUEST_URI']" . "$SERVER_['QUERY_STRING']" Then get the file on the left to fopen and fread that into a variable.
then have one of the scripts fopen in a mode that will clear the contents of the file, i.e. "w" then close it out.

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] also grabs a query string if there is one.

hope that helps a little. feel free to email me

Zaaephod

hmmm thats a little thick for me but I do get the drift - I like the idea of being able to include the query too -- I'll have to brush up on my file commands a bit 😉

Thanks!

drew010

If that last post was a little much for you, here is what the open commands could look like.

$fp = fopen("./file.dat","w+"); // Open the file, clear any contents it contains
if($fp) {
//If file was not opened let us know.
echo "File was not opened. Check permissions.";
exit;
}
fwrite($fp,$_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);
fclose($fp);

now have the other page do this:

$fp = fopen("./file.dat","r");
fread($fp,filesize("./file.dat"));
// read the entire contents into a variable
fclose($fp);
$fp = fopen("./file.dat","w");
// Open the file in a mode that clears all content so its blank again
fclose($fp);
// close it out

Hope that gives a little light on the subject. Heres some reference for you.

Filesystem Reference - PHP Manual

Zaaephod

Ahh ok, thank you, you're a big help 🙂

I do have a couple php books, and several on mySQL, just have never had a need to deal with files in this way.

I will try this code out this weekend (at 'work' now 😃)

Thanks again!

Zaaephod