Quick bit of help

edstittle

Hey everyone,

I'm 13 and I have a website called www.gamespectrum.co.uk it's really annoying because I don't have a host that supports php or mysql so for cms I have to use my own version which is just basically frames which you'll be able to see if you go on it. This is a great disadvantage for my website since when the website comes up on a search engine you only see the frame page and can't see the menu bar (which is outside the frame).

I'm thinking of moving hosts but it's pointless unless I sort out the php. If it is simple/quick to do please would someone copy the source of this page http://www.gamespectrum.co.uk/test.htm and add in the php so that if the header and menu (on the right) are changed, they are change on every single page of my website (don't know the name of this operation). If it's easier you could explain it to me so I can do it.

If I haven't explained this clearly please tell me. Thanks for your help in advance. 🙂

thorpe

Frames are a client side issue. Your host does not need to and in fact cannot support or not support frames.

Maybe [man]include/man will help you however.

edstittle

yeh sorry, I was ment to type mysql or php, I've edited it now.

Thanks ofr that link, im looking at it now.

kkobashi

Before you can sort out the PHP, you need a Apache/PHP/mySql setup.

You should learn how to setup a webserver on your development machine at home. Then learn on the development machine instead on a remote server.

Read the following to get started:
PHP and Apache installation

If headers, footers, menus are the same throughout your website, then you would create a PHP file containing HTML/PHP code. Here's a general idea of what it would look like:

<html>
<head><title>blah</title></head>
<body>
<div id="header">
<?php require_once("header.php"); ?>
</div>
<div id="content">
  <div id="menu" style="float: left; width: 180px;">
   <?php require_once("menu.php"); ?>
  </div>
  <div id="column" style="float: left: width: 580px;">
   Your stuff here
  </div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<?php require_once("footer.php"); ?>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Header.php

<a href="http://www.mysite.com/" title="mysite">
<img src="logo.jpg" alt="my logo">
</a>

Footer.php

Copyright &copy; mysite.com

Menu.php

<ul>
<li>Menu item #1</li>
<li>Menu item #2</li>
<li>Menu item #3</li>
<li>Menu item #4</li>
<li>Menu item #5</li>
</ul>

rikmoncur

when the website comes up on a search engine you only see the frame page and can't see the menu bar

In the meantime, you could put this javascript into your frame page and it'll flip you back to the frameset...

setTimeout ("changePage()", 100);
function changePage() {
if (self.parent.frames.length == 0)
self.parent.location="index.html";
}

coldfused

You don't really need php to include files.
If the server has SSI (Server Side Include) enabled, don't know how you would check it out, probably email the admin.

If the file you want to include in your page is located some where under your DocumentRoot directory (the one with your main index page), you can use the virtual type of include:

    [B]<!--#include virtual="/file.txt" -->[/B]
       or
    [B]<!--#include virtual="/somedir/file.txt" -->[/B]

Hopefully that will work, you might have to save the page in .shtml rather than .html