Set URL as Variable

Anon

Hi!

I'd like to have a frames page with the url of one of the frames being a variable.

Example:

<?php

$url = www.yahoo.com;

<frameset rows=30,*>
<frame src="http://www.mydomain.com" name="top" scrolling=no>
<frame src="http://<php $url; ?>" name="bottom">
</frameset>

I doubt that I am even remotely close to the solution...I have tried dozens of ways but nothing works. I know the code above is flawed, but I thought I would include it to try to show what I am trying to do.

Please help me, you can see that I am fairly knew to this and at this point am pretty much hopeless on this one...

Thanks so much,
Barry

Anon

instead of
<php $url; ?>

use
<?php echo $url; ?>

Anon

Thanks!

Now my first problem is solved, but it created another one. The PHP must be parsing the periods, because the bottom frame is set to http://wwwyahoocom, instead of http://www.yahoo.com.

Is there any way to work around this?

Thanks again,
Barry

Anon

How did you set the variable? Can we see some code?

Anon

Here is the code I am using:

<?php
$url = www.yahoo.com;
?>
<frameset rows=30,*>
<frame src="http://www.mydomain.com" name="top" scrolling=no>
<frame src="http://<?php echo "$url\n"; ?>" name="bottom">
</frameset>

In the script I need this for I will be getting the URL from a MySQL database, but this is the part of the code that is causing the problem right now. You said to change <?php $url; ?> to <?php echo $url; ?>. It worked after I added the '\n' to it. But it takes the periods out of the URL and I don't know why.

Thanks again,
Barry

Anon

You ALWAYS need double quotes (") around strings. PHP is nice and tries to guess what you are trying to do if you dont use quotes.

<?php
$url = "www.yahoo.com";
?>

Anon

THANK YOU!

Regards,
Barry