php include

[rebz01]

ok so i have made a site its still pretty basic at the moment

im concentrating on getting my forum embedded in one of my pages

http://rebz01.doesntexist.com/teh-clan/index.php?site=forum

as you can see it works but if you click on anything it loads the forum in its own window i want it to stay there as if i was using iframe

1, why is it ot staying inside my web page
2, how do i stop it

any help would be greatly appreciated

thanx in advance
rebz01
stephen

[johanafm]

Because whenever a forum link is clicked, you no longer load the rest of the page, and your browser doesn't care about intentions, only about what's sent to it in one specific request. To the browser, each new page has nothing to do with anything else.

You want something along the lines of

require 'header.php';
require 'navbar.php';

$pages = array('start.php', 'forum.php', 'forum_search.php', 'other_stuff.php');
if (!isset($pages[$_GET['page']])
	$page = $pages[0];
else
	$page = $pages[$_GET['page']];

require $page;
require 'footer.php';

[rebz01]

i apologise i realy am a newbie lol

so all i have to do is edit your code with statin each page that loads?

[johanafm]

Yes, but it may be a lot of work forcing your code into any specific structure depending on what it looks like. bpat and Nogdog have shown two other ways of dealing with the issue in this thread

[rebz01]

i give up
ill just make do with it openin the forum in a new window