how to load a page in the middle column of a table?

scuzzo84

Ok say you have a table with 3 columns, and on the left column is a menu, and you want to keep the left and right columns always the same, but when you click a link from the menu that is in the left column it will load a page in the middle.

I cant remember how its done, its with some include thingy if I remember :/

elementaluk

put an Iframe in the middle column and give it a NAME.

Then with some god awful javascript, maybe something like this:
<script>
function change(page){
url = page;
//my IFRAME is called Biosonik
parent.frames['biosonik'].location.href = url;
}
</script>

then on your menu just put: OnClick="javascript:change("mypage.php")"

...its something like that, you could probably use targets instead but thats to easy, easy is boring.

scuzzo84

nah there is an easier way than this...I just cant remember it :/

gufmn

Originally posted by elementaluk

...its something like that, you could probably use targets instead but thats to easy, easy is boring.

It doesn't get much easier than that.

scuzzo84

see http://www.colonialhealth.net/beta/index.php

see when you click "about us" or "more info" at the top it loads the page in the middle. This is what I want.

I had a site setup like this before. So the link is something like http://www.colonialhealth.net/beta/index.php?page=aboutus and it will load http://www.colonialhealth.net/beta/aboutus.php in the middle, although I dont think this is how it works on this site...

wilku

The page you showed as an example of what you need is probably written something like:

<?php
include('header.php');//everything up to  left column
switch ($_GET['page'])
{
  case 'page1':
          include('page1.php');
          break;
  //and so on
  default:
         include('main.php');
}
include('footer.php');//everything after content (with right column)

So each time you load the whole page - it's just to quick to notice (well - I see, that right column appears a little later then content each time the new page is loaded)

scuzzo84

thanks everyone esp. last guy!