PHP/HTML question

[azazael13]

Cross posting this in the HTML forum as well, as I am not sure which is better.

I have a index page that is a frame set.
My frame set is
-1-|------2-------|
-3-|-4-|--5--|-6-|

I have a navigation pane in frame 3. The list is php/mysql driven. is what I would like is to display the content of the link in frame 5. I can do this fine making static pages and using name/target. Is what I am looking to do is make frame 5 a dynamic php/mysql driven page.

Ie they click on link xyz from panel 3 and it will display the xyz page in frame 5, but there is no static page for xyz.

Make sense? Help? Or am I out of luck?

[Motoma]

Cross posting this in the HTML forum as well, as I am not sure which is better.

I have a index page that is a frame set.
My frame set is
-1-|------2-------|
-3-|-4-|--5--|-6-|

I have a navigation pane in frame 3. The list is php/mysql driven. is what I would like is to display the content of the link in frame 5. I can do this fine making static pages and using name/target. Is what I am looking to do is make frame 5 a dynamic php/mysql driven page.

Ie they click on link xyz from panel 3 and it will display the xyz page in frame 5, but there is no static page for xyz.

Make sense? Help? Or am I out of luck?

Double posting is a no no.
I'm not sure what part of this you are having trouble with...it seems you have the concept, flow, and structure already thought out. Perhaps if you asked a question, you would get better responses.

[azazael13]

sorry I should have checked the forum rules first ><


my question is how do I get that done?

in my <a href> do I add ,_$POST=$row[2] to the end of the file name? (Where post 2 is what I need passed?

I was just confused because I have never done post and get in frames, so I didn't know if it was possible. All my previous php passing has been via a form.

[Motoma]

If your navigation frame is being populated by the database, then you just have it draw up the correct URLs in the HREF tag.

[azazael13]

I might not be making this clear. Here is my navigation pane.

<?
$result = mysql_query("SELECT name, link, pkey FROM links ORDER BY lorder");
if($result)
{
while($row=mysql_fetch_row($result))
echo "<a href=$row[1] target='tbody'>$row[0]</a><br>";
}
?>

Is what I would like is a way to pass pkey (row[2]) to frame tbody so I can make one generic page that would look like this

<?
$result = mysql_query("SELECT text, header, FROM text WHERE llink=passed variable");

output results
?>


That way I don't have to make 10 pages for 10 links, I can make one page that will pull the information from the database (in frame 5).

[Motoma]

I see what you are getting at now:

Yes, I would do something like this:

[PHP]
<?php
//Nav page
$result = mysql_query("SELECT name, pkey FROM links ORDER BY lorder");
if($result)
{
while($row=mysql_fetch_row($result))
echo "<a href='loadLink.php?pkey={$row['pkey']}' target='tbody'>{$row['name']}</a><br>";
}
?>

<?php
//loadLink.php
$keyPage = $_GET['pkey'];

// Load correct data based on what the $keyPage number is
[/PHP]

I might not be making this clear. Here is my navigation pane.

<?
$result = mysql_query("SELECT name, link, pkey FROM links ORDER BY lorder");
if($result)
{
while($row=mysql_fetch_row($result))
echo "<a href=$row[1] target='tbody'>$row[0]</a><br>";
}
?>

Is what I would like is a way to pass pkey (row[2]) to frame tbody so I can make one generic page that would look like this

<?
$result = mysql_query("SELECT text, header, FROM text WHERE llink=passed variable");

output results
?>


That way I don't have to make 10 pages for 10 links, I can make one page that will pull the information from the database (in frame 5).

[azazael13]

I see what you are getting at now:

Yes, I would do something like this:

[PHP]
<?php
//Nav page
$result = mysql_query("SELECT name, pkey FROM links ORDER BY lorder");
if($result)
{
while($row=mysql_fetch_row($result))
echo "<a href='loadLink.php?pkey={$row['pkey']}' target='tbody'>{$row['name']}</a><br>";
}
?>

<?php
//loadLink.php
$keyPage = $_GET['pkey'];

// Load correct data based on what the $keyPage number is
[/PHP]

That works exactly right, thanks so much. I think my probelm is I wasn't adding { } after the =

[Motoma]

Yes, you need to do this otherwise PHP will not correctly interpret arrays embeded in strings. The other way to do this is to exit the string, and concatenate:

[php]
$var = "The POST value for username was ".$_POST['username'].", but we didn't let him in!";
[/php]

A good thing to do would be to look up the difference between single and double quotes; double quotes are parsed for variables, meaning they take a very slight performance hit versus single quotes.