framed page value in URL

Gordonator

Is it possible to create a dynamic type of page that will change the URL address when the frame content is changed, like index.php?main=updates.html
this way I could include my framed menu without the lack of linking capabilities. Any ideas?

To clarify the index page would be a dynamic page with frames. When you click a link instead of leaving the URL address alone, it changes to index.php?main=content/link.html

This way you can have a framed menu and better linking capabilites.

so far I have:

</head>
<frameset cols="320,*" framespacing="0" border="0" frameborder="0">
<frame src="menu.html" target="main" scrolling="no" name="left" noresize>
<frame src="<?php echo $GET['main']; ?>" target="self" name="main" noresize>
</frameset>
</html>

I can make links that include the frames and the specific page, but I need the code to read what the main frame changes to when a link is clicked and display it in the URL.

Pig

This is a javascript question, not PHP.

dcav

You could append more attributes on the URL using "&", perhaps that is what you need.

index.php?main=updates.html&thisFrame=content

Gordonator

when I use index.php?main=updates.html on the website, it then makes the page display a menu and in the other frame "updatest.html" the page "updates.html" has links on it that target _self. When I click a link the URL remains the same (index.php?main=updates.html) even though the frame content is now "video1.html". I'd like the php page to read what the frame content changes to and put it on in the URL, so when the link is clicked the URL will be "index.php?main=video1.html".

dcav

Could you put up your site's link so we can take a look what is actually going on?

Gordonator

www.copout.net/

I made the links point to specific URLs, but to see what I mean go to

http://www.copout.net/ds/videos/index.php?video=main.html

on that page I'd like the URL to change as the page changes in the video frame

dcav

I'd like the URL to change as the page changes in the video frame

I see now...so let's say you choose
ex: Two Whammies

You want the url to display:
http://www.copout.net/ds/videos/index.php?video=2whammies.html

Am I correct?

Gordonator

I changed everything around. I'm now looking for a way to include a text file on a page determined by the URL

I tried:
<?php include echo $_GET['video'].txt; ?>

which did not work. I need to do it without ".txt" in the URL because the variable replaces multiple parts on the page.