Linking to a page with an iframe already loaded

skeetley

Hi all,
I am worried that this question is more html based than php based, but please don't hate me. I have one page. I want to put a link on it to page two. Page two uses iframes. When page 1 links to page 2 I want to have a certain image in the iframe. I do not want the iframe to load this image each time this page is accessed, just when it is accessed by this link from page 1. Something like <a href="page2.html, with image1.gif in iframe"> Is that even possible? Thanks

paulnaj

If your 'page 2' is a php page (That is, .php and not .html) then you could pass a variable to the page in the link when you want to show the image ...

... href="page2.php?showimage=1" ...

skeetley

Page 2 is not yet a PHP page but I could make it one. I would appreciate some more help though on doing this then.

On page2.php I have a link that opens the iframe to the image <a HREF="TEMP.GIF" target="iframe1">

How then do I link page1.php to this page2.php with temp.gif in the iframe?

a href="page2.php?iframe1=temp.gif" - is that how??

paulnaj

I'm not sure I understand ....

Is this correct?

You have a page (page2.php) with an iframe in it. Depending on which link is clicked to get to page2.php, one of two (or more) 'sub' pages are loaded into the iframe.

If that's correct then ...

On page2.php you would have some php like:

if($showgif){
   $href = 'temp.gif';
} else {
   $href = 'someotherpage.htm';
}

Then, in the HTML:
<iframe ... href="<?=$href?>" ...>

So, the only thing left, is where the $showgif variable came from.
That would be decided by the href that links to page2.php.

So, if the link is <a ... href="page2.php" ...> then 'someotherpage.htm' would go into the iframe.

<a ... href="page2.php?showgif=1" ...> would put the gif in the iframe.

Hope that answers your question.
P.