Forcing page into frame

[Bernard Davis]

Hi,

I've been asked to add some pages to an existing web-site that was
done in frames (two different sets of frames with different navigation
links).

I need to ensure that if someone tries to load a page without the
frameset it will force the frameset to take effect with the correct
page displayed.

I've got this code at the top of one of the child pages:

<script language="Javascript">

if (top.location == self.location) {
top.location = '../../index.htm.htm'
}
</script>

This almost works, it opens the frameset correctly, but it always
shows the original file that the frameset contains.
How can I force it to open with the correct page displayed?

Regards,
Bernard D.

 

[Bernard Davis]

1. you have to transmit the url of the page to be displayed to the
frameset (using the querystring for example) like
'frameset.htm?uri=somepage.htm'

2. have the frameset figure out if a uri is transmitted, and if yes,
open it the window you like.

micha

Thanks Micha,

that gives me a starting point.
However, how would I then convert the ULR into a text string within
the frameset?

I know how to do it in PHP easily enough, but this javascript stuff is
a bit obscure to me.

Regards,
Bernard D

 

[kaeli]

that gives me a starting point.
However, how would I then convert the ULR into a text string within
the frameset?

I know how to do it in PHP easily enough, but this javascript stuff is
a bit obscure to me.

http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace/useful_dynamicFrameset.html

HTH

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[Bernard Davis]

i just read you are familiar with php.

if you have it available on yor server, there would be a much neater
solution.

1. transmit the query string to the frameset as above.

2. have a php script create the frameset on the fly and code the url
directly into the html output.

advantage in my opinion: reduces the amount of javascript

micha

Thanks for your help. I've done a quick mock-up in PHP to see how
easy it is, took two minutes and worked fine, the only problem is of
course that the parent page now has to be xyz.php rather than xyz.htm.

I'm not too sure if the client will be happy with this as there are
hundreds of other pages all refering back to xyz.htm.

Pity I didn't do the whole site from the beginning.

Regards,
Bernard D

 

[Bernard Davis]

http://www.ipwebdesign.net/kaelisSpace/useful_dynamicFrameset.html

HTH

Thanks for that. I'll bear it in mind as a 'Plan B'

Regards,
Bernard D

 

[Mick White]

That's helpful to me too, but my URL is like:

HOST/PATHES/frameset.htm?uri=somepage.htm&a=a&b=b&c=c

How do I split them up?

location.search.split("&")[0].split("=")[0];
for one...
Mick