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