Link (url) to frame in another page.

moriax

I have downloaded a gallery script and integrated it on my homepage in the easiest way I know, by putting it inside a frame, an iframe to be precise. But frames uselly cause problems and now I got one:

On my startpage I want to add a link to the picture with the newest comment made to it. So this link or url shall not only bring the visitor to another page (myGallery), it also should open a specified page (commentedPicture) insidide the frame on that page. Follow me?

If I link only to the myGallery page, then the indexpage of the gallery script will be presented in the frame. No good.
And if I link to the commentedPicture page, then that page will open without the design and layout of my homepage. No good.

So how will I solve this?

justsomeone

you could pass a parameter to the gallery page:

gallerypage.php
would just load the gallery page with the index in the iframe

gallerypage.php?id=1234
would load the gallery page with image 1234 in the iframe

Exactly how to implement that depends on everythign else you're using.

moriax

Hmm...still cant figure it out.

I do send a id parameter, but to the galleryindex.php.

The link on my startpage must go to the gallery.htm and on the same time target "myframe" on that page and open galleryindex.php?id=12 in that frame target.

The pseudo code would be like:

Dont know if I make any sense?

moriax

Please someone!? This problem is consuming me. By now I've been pulling out my hair!

justsomeone

myGallery currently works, setting up framesetes etc, and loading a default indexpage in the iframe. Correct?

You now would like to change this so that you can (optionally) call myGallery with a parameter to instruct it to load a different page in the iframe. Correct?

galleryindex.php is already coded to accept an id parameter and display the relevant image. Correct?

The tag to load the iframe currently looks something like:

<a href=gallery.htm target=myframe openInTarget=galleryindex.php?id=12>link</a>

This can easily be done.

rename myGallery to myGallery.php
Change the above html to something like (no time here to test & debug)

<?php
if(isset($_get['id'])){
$target="galleryindex.php?id=".$_get['id'];
}else{
$target="galleryindex.php";
}
echo "<a href=gallery.htm target=myframe openInTarget=".$target.">link</a>";
?>

...and that's it. Now, if you call myGallery.php with a parameter of id (eg myGallery.php?id=122) the value of id will be passed on to galleryindex.php

moriax

Thanx for the fast reply "justsomeone"!

I'm short on time right now but will try your tips later. Just one thing: The code I provided was not working code, just a way of describing what I was trying to do. For example I dont belive there is something called "openInTarget"?

I additionally found this on another forum from someone with the same problem:

"i've used php to fix my problem,
window.open('content.php?p=page','_parent');
then the content.php which contains the mainFrame has the next code:

I'm not sure how it is implemented but I will have a look at all this when I got time.

Thanx again!

justsomeone

tell you what.

post the code you have. The code which works to show just the index page, and I'll show you what to do with that. I have to confess, I didn't actually read the tag last time, just went straight into substitution.

moriax

Right now I have the following code:

Actually the href is created dynamically for each picture(id) but the static outcome is what I present in the code above. Right now the code is set to open the link in a new window, but that is because I havn't solved the problem yet.

I could also set the code as follows:

This link redirect to the gallery page which containes the frame "myframe". But "myframe" is set as follows:

And will as the "src" say display the index.php page. Here I want it to instead display the dynamically made href code from the top code.

Do you follow?

moriax

Yahooo! Fixed it!

OK,

First I renamed the galleri.htm to galleri.php

Then I altered the dynamic creation of the link to build a string that look like this (example):

Then I put this in the top of the galleri.php page:

<?
if ($GET['p']=="") {
$p="gallery/index.php";}
else {
$p=$GET['p'];}
?>

and on the same page I altered the frames scr-code to:

src="<?=$p;?>"