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.

[micha]

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

[Bernard Davis]

On 4 May 2005 03:23:40 -0700, "micha" <ch*********@web.de> wrote:

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

[micha]

suppose this is what the url looks like:

HOST/PATHES/frameset.htm?uri=somepage.htm

window.location.search will deliver ?uri=somepage.htm

window.location.search.slice(5) delivers somepage.htm

[micha]

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

[Tom Scales]

"micha" <ch*********@web.de> wrote in message
news:11**********************@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com...

suppose this is what the url looks like:

HOST/PATHES/frameset.htm?uri=somepage.htm

window.location.search will deliver ?uri=somepage.htm

window.location.search.slice(5) delivers somepage.htm

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?

Tom

[kaeli]

In article <7l********************************@4ax.com>, Bernard Davis
<bdavis(deletethis)@castlecs.co.uk> enlightened us with...

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/kaelisSpa...cFrameset.html

HTH

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~kaeli~
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[Bernard Davis]

On 4 May 2005 05:24:33 -0700, "micha" <ch*********@web.de> wrote:

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]

On Wed, 4 May 2005 07:26:39 -0500, kaeli <ti******@NOSPAM.comcast.net>
wrote:

In article <7l********************************@4ax.com>, Bernard Davis
<bdavis(deletethis)@castlecs.co.uk> enlightened us with...

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/kaelisSpa...cFrameset.html

HTH

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

Regards,
Bernard D

[micha]

Bernard Davis deletethis wrote:

On 4 May 2005 05:24:33 -0700, "micha" <ch*********@web.de> wrote:

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

there's tools to search/replace text over many files. i use an editor
called proton for that (www.meybohm.de), but i don't know if there's an
english version.

or use the rewrite engine of the apache server to map any access for
frameset.htm to frameset.php

micha

[Mick White]

Tom Scales wrote:

"micha" <ch*********@web.de> wrote in message
news:11**********************@o13g2000cwo.googlegr oups.com...

suppose this is what the url looks like:

HOST/PATHES/frameset.htm?uri=somepage.htm

window.location.search will deliver ?uri=somepage.htm

window.location.search.slice(5) delivers somepage.htm

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