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BigJim
Can a single iframe display differing website links?

  • 2008/2/15 2:51

  • BigJim

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I want to have a block for one module which displays an iframe of a relevant website.

The difficult part is that it needs to be a different website link for each article of the module.

Right now I have hacked smartsection so that every article (item) has a unique external website link. I would like to change it so that instead of a link the website itself displays within my site.

I've got Myiframe which is great but with my limited php knowledge I can't figure out how to tell the iframe to communicate with my smartsection_items table to find out which link to wrap for each different article.

Can this be done? Any help is really, really appreciated

Thanks
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BigJim
Re: Can a single iframe display differing website links?

  • 2008/2/21 1:36

  • BigJim

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Can anyone help me on this?

Not sure I explained it too well.

Basiclly I need to split the page in to two,top half will have the article, bottom half will display a related (external) website using frames.

I've tried creating a block using myiframe but can't figure how to make it return a differnt website for each article

The website link for each article is already in the database table but how can I code it to have the relevant website displayed for each article?

Thanks a lot!
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BigJim
Re: Can a single iframe display differing website links?

  • 2008/2/25 9:45

  • BigJim

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Try another bump for help, i'm under pressure to get this done so i anyone can offer any help I'll be really appreciative

So take a module like the module repository, when you click on each module you can see the download link, what I need is for each link to display as a frame within the page, rather than taking users to a new, external page.

Using myiframe I can only see how to set up one individal link per block, whereas I need the frame to be a link to whichever link is associated with that page.

PLEASE HELP!!! THANKS
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Peekay
Re: Can a single iframe display differing website links?

  • 2008/2/25 12:02

  • Peekay

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You can use the 'target' param in a link to target a named iFrame.

There's an example here:

http://www.codeave.com/html/code.asp?u_log=5048

Perhaps you could add the iFrame to a (large) block under the list of links?
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tcnet
Re: Can a single iframe display differing website links?

  • 2008/2/25 12:40

  • tcnet

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If I understand correctly, the external url is already stored in your db, has been assigned to a variable and you can display that variable as a text link on the article's page.

All thats left to do is add an iframe to the smartsection_item.html template to display the external webpage for each article.

templates/smartsection_item.html around line 27
After:
<div class="itemText">
   <{$item.maintext}>
div>

Add:
<iframe SRC='<{$yourvariable}>' scrolling='no' width='100%' height='290' marginwidth='0' marginheight='0' hspace='0' vspace='0' frameborder='0'>
iframe>


Don't forget to update the module after editing the template.
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BigJim
Re: Can a single iframe display differing website links?

  • 2008/2/26 4:12

  • BigJim

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Thanks a million peekay and tcnet!!

tcnet - your answer was just what I was looking for but it is not quite working because the external url's stored in the database are returned as weblink text

So the source is like this:

src="http://www.bham.ac.uk">

I know (I think) this is to do with the item handler but can't figure how to change it.

Do you know how?

Thanks again
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BigJim
Re: Can a single iframe display differing website links?

  • 2008/2/26 8:03

  • BigJim

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Got it! Just needed to go to smartsection/class/item.php and delete the mytextsanitizer instruction for the weblink variable.

Brilliant! now it works perferctly both via the item.html template and using myiframe.

Thanks again - I'm so happy!!!!

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