[Resolved] I-Frame with PHP pages

klik

Okay , I have an admin section and wish to have the same admin layout as like PHPBB Forums.

I have no idea how to do this. My pages are all PHP and I would have a thin frame on the left which would be my admin menu, and when clicked would open up that linked page in the bigger right hand frame.

An example code would be excellent.

Cheers
-Klik

Roger_Ramjet

Do you want frames or an iframe?

I use a search menu in a frame that submits to the mainframe for display of results. Quite straight forward really, here is the form code from the search frame


<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" border="0">
<form name="search" action="main.php" target="mainframe" method="post" onSubmit="return val_search();">
<tr>
	<td><input type="text" name="go_string" size="15" maxlength="40" tabindex="1" title="no selection = display all debts" /></td>
	<td><select name="go_field" tabindex="2" title="no selection = display all debts">
		<option value="all">- select field -</option>
		<option value="track">track</option>
		<option value="ref"><?=$client?> ref</option>
		<option value="name">name</option>
	</select></td>
	<td><input type="submit" class="mainoption" name="go_search" value="search" tabindex="3" title="no selection = display all debts"  /></td>
</tr>
</form>

The target main.php runs the query and displays diff pages according to the results using includes.

If you don't need to query anything, just to display the page according to the menu item then that would be even easier.

klik

Thanks for the code.

However, it is the more simpler version I am going to work with.

I have my frameset page called index.php and my left menu panel called admin_menu.php and my main panel admin_area.php

Just one thing to know now. How do I include a link in the admin_menu to enable the admin_area to change to the page I need.

klik

Got it working

-Resolved

Roger_Ramjet

Exactly as in mine. I have index.php which is the frameset. It has 2 frames topframe and mainframe. Top is tomenu.php and main is main.php. Top.php posts to main.php in the target mainframe.

I have a javascript function that just checks the user has enterd something to search for. If yours is going to be a menu then you won't need that. Everything else is just normal form post. Main.php looks to see what was submitted and acts accordingly.

 // admin_menu.php
 // usual html headers body etc

echo '<form name="menu" action="admin_area.php" target="admin_area" method="post">';
echo '<input type="submit" name="menu1" value="Home">';
// etc for your menu options

// end form etc

This is the code that is in the menu page admin_menu.php .