Browsing outside links

raouleduke

When I have a link in my site to an outside link, how do I go about including a header when they click on the link, so they never really leave my site.
Thanks in advance.

sarahk

I use page logging on my site to track the number of downloads or external links. You could use a similar strategy for your site.

For instance you might have a hyperlink that looks like this

<a href="/tutorial/link.php?id=siteA" target="_blank">Visit Site A</a>

link.php would then set up a frameset with a menu frame from your site and a content frame with the actual page from "siteA"

Then as the user moves around siteA they will always have your menu visible.

HOWEVER

if the user clicks on a hyperlink on siteA's page and selects "Open in new window" they will break out of your frame. Same as if they click a link with target="_blank"

If siteA has a link with target="top" or "parent" then you will be knocked out

If siteA has frame aware javascript they may try to detect if the page is orphaned and then open in their own frameset.

BUT

if you have reasonable control over siteA, siteB...siteZ or confidence in their content then you should not have too many problems.

raouleduke

What would the link.php look like, do I need to use frames or can I just do an include, and request statement.
Thanks in advance.

sarahk

<?
//code to track requests against my internal hit counter here

switch($id)
{
  case 'siteA':
    $url = 'http://property.digitalrice.com/tutorial/index.php';
    $title = 'Sarah\'s Tutorial';
	break;
  case 'siteB':
    $url = 'http://www.pcpropertymanager.com/';
    $title = 'PC Property Manager';
	break;
  case 'siteC':
    $url = 'http://www.propertyinvestor.info/';
    $title = 'Property Investment Coaching';
	break;
}
?>
<html>
<head>
  <title><?=$title; ?></title>
</head>

<frameset cols="80,*">
  <frame src="menu.php" name="menu" noresize>
  <frame src="<?=$url; ?>" name="content" noresize>
</frameset>
<noframes>

  <body bgcolor="#ffffff">
    <p></p>
  </body>

</noframes>

</html>

sarahk

As for your question about including. You could use fgets to get the content but that may interfere with their javascript, formatting and even breach their copyright.

Are you caching content or genuinely wanting to link to their site?

raouleduke

Genuinly Linking to sites

sarahk

cool, if you were caching there would be a different approach.

raouleduke

Thank you for all your help, it worked out.