PHP hyperlinks in a iFrame passing to a iFrame in index.php

chris122380 · Post by **chris122380** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 3:37 pm

I am working on making a php site and am fairly new to php. The home page index.php has two iframes one on the left (name=pages) and one on the right (name=pdf). Above the iframe on the left are CSS buttons to open php files into the left iframe. One of the php files (Spec_list.php) opens with links generated from mysql into the left iframe. The links work when loading just the Spec_list.php but for some strange reason do not load when loading in the iframe. (both php files located in the same folder). I would then also like to get the links to open there pdf files into the iframe on the right hand side. I would like to be able to open diffident php files similar to spec_list.php in the left side who's links then open into the right iframe.

Index.php

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type" />
<title>Main Page</title>
<link href="css/Untitled_1.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
	<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/Untitled_1.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection"/>
	<!--[if lte IE 7]>
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/ie.css" media="screen" />
    <![endif]-->
			
	<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.3.1.min.js"></script>	
	<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="js/jquery.dropdownPlain.js"></script>
</head>

<body>

<div id="body">
	<div id="left"> 
		<ul class="dropdown">
				<li><a href="spec/Spec List.php" target="pages">Specification</a></li>
				<li><a href="../aboutus.htm" target="pages">About Us</a></li>
				<li><a href="../contact.htm" target="pages">Contact Us</a></li>           	
	    </ul>
    
	    <!-- Test Div  <div id="pages" style='width: 400px; height:600px; background-color:gray; clear: both; overflow: auto; padding: auto 15px;'></div> -->
	    <iframe name="pages" style="width: 399px; height:775px; clear:both; overflow:auto; padding: auto 15px;" border="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>
    
	</div>

	<div id="right">
		 
	<iframe name="pdf" style="width: 617px; height:793px; clear:both; overflow:auto; " border="0" frameborder="0"></iframe>

	</div>
	
	<div id="bottom"> </div>

</div>

</body>

</html>

spec_list.php

<?php
// List Projects spec numbers with links to there spec numbers 

include('conect.php');

//Query to pull data from Chris Anthony Business (Should be changed to userID variable to work with login and password system. May need new query or may need new relationships. 
$query = mysql_query("SELECT `contacts`.`first_name`, `contacts`.`last_name`, `contacts`.`company`, `spec`.`spec`, `spec`.`discription` FROM `canthony`.`project_spec` AS `project_spec`, `canthony`.`project` AS `project`, `canthony`.`spec` AS `spec`, `canthony`.`contacts` AS `contacts` WHERE `project_spec`.`Project_ID` = `project`.`Project_ID` AND `project_spec`.`spec` = `spec`.`spec` AND `contacts`.`first_name` = 'Chris' AND `contacts`.`last_name` = 'Anthony'"); //query the database

//fetch the results and convert results into an array
WHILE ($rows = mysql_fetch_array($query)): //Fetch data from $query as long as there is data to fetch

$rows = preg_replace('/[\x00-\x1F\x80-\xFF]/', '', $rows); //Makes $rows variables print friendly characters

		// assign fields from the query to Variables
		$first_name = $rows['first_name'];
		$last_name = $rows['last_name'];
		$company = $rows['company'];
		$spec = $rows['spec'];
		$discription = $rows['discription'];
	
	$spec = str_replace (" ", "", $spec); //removes spaces from $spec variable 

echo '<a href="spec/',$spec,'.pdf">',$spec,' ',$discription,'</a><br/>';
// "$spec $discription": $pdf="$spec"; break;
	
	endwhile;

?>

I have also tried by converting my variables to session variables and the spec_list.php links still will not work when loaded in the left iframe.

chris122380 · Post by **chris122380** » Thu Jul 26, 2012 9:40 pm

I have figured out how to pass the page to the iframe. Had to move the echo and the endwhile to the body of the html. Like so,

<body>
<a href="spec/<?php echo $_SESSION['spec']; ?>.pdf" target="pdf"> <?php echo $_SESSION['spec'],' ',$_SESSION['discription'], '<br />'; ?>   </a>
<?php endwhile; ?>
</body>

Now I am trying to figure out how to clear the iframe when clicking on a link that doesn't use it.

Post by **jacek** » Sun Jul 29, 2012 1:53 am

chris122380 wrote:Now I am trying to figure out how to clear the iframe when clicking on a link that doesn't use it.

That's not going to be possible

Links can only affect an Iframe if their target is set to that frame. You will have to try some JavaScript to get it to work. You could also add a clear link which would be a lot easier

<a href="blank.html" target="pdf">Clear</a>

chris122380 · Post by **chris122380** » Mon Jul 30, 2012 9:14 pm

jacek wrote:
chris122380 wrote:Now I am trying to figure out how to clear the iframe when clicking on a link that doesn't use it.
That's not going to be possible Links can only affect an Iframe if their target is set to that frame. You will have to try some JavaScript to get it to work. You could also add a clear link which would be a lot easier
<a href="blank.html" target="pdf">Clear</a>

This only gives me another link to clear the iframe. Is there a way to get it to clear when clicking a link that opens a file in the left iframe or when clicking a link that isn't in it's iframe? I am ok using js if I know what code to use.

Post by **jacek** » Fri Aug 03, 2012 10:26 pm

chris122380 wrote:This only gives me another link to clear the iframe. Is there a way to get it to clear when clicking a link that opens a file in the left iframe or when clicking a link that isn't in it's iframe?

jacek wrote:That's not going to be possible Links can only affect an Iframe if their target is set to that frame.

Go with the JavaScript method.

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