Iframe help

[rfleming]

On my site, i currently use an iframe to load a page in the middle of a menu. The menu called the page and loads it in the iframe. Now my problem is, if i click on a link inside the iframe it stays in the iframe instead of reloading the page. Is there any way to get the links in the iframe to open in the whole window?

[blue60007]

Add the attribute: target = "_parent" to your link, so an example:

<a href = "http://www.pcmech.com" target = "_parent">PC Mech</a>

[rfleming]

thanks worked great. Only one more question, how would i do that with a form?

[rfleming]

I figured it out with forums, same way thank you

[rfleming]

Problem i just came across. $_POST[] doesnt work between the pages now that i changed it. What is the easiest way to fix it?

[blue60007]

Originally Posted by rfleming Problem i just came across. $_POST[] doesnt work between the pages now that i changed it. What is the easiest way to fix it?

In PHP?

[rfleming]

yes

[blue60007]

Can I see your code thus far? I'm not really sure what you're trying to do. Frames aren't the best way to go after whatever you are going after.

[rfleming]

The current site i am working on is a text based video game. The current set up we use makes a nav menu and creates an iframe in the middle of whatever page you wish to view.
the sites home page is elvyn.boochinkatfish.com
if you ment to see the code itself, i will pm it to you.

[blue60007]

You can do this:

<form method="POST" action="post.php" target="_parent">

But I'm sure you have that.

Is this what you're having problems?

if($_POST['submit'])
{
  echo "Hello";
}

[rfleming]

sorry if i wasnt overly clear, here is the basics of how links work in game. I clink on a link, all links are directed to index3.php. Now each link has a name page something. so each link is index.php?page=home for example. Now index3.php takes the page var adds .php and displays it in an iframe. I use $_POST several time in home. For some reason the posts in home all equal "".

[blue60007]

I'm no expert at PHP, but is it possible to set a variable, such as:

$page = home;

echo "<a href=\"index.php?page=" . $page . ">\"";

Then you can gather the page name in the resulting page:

if($_GET['page'] == 'home')
{
 //redirect to proper page

}

Like I said I'm no expert and its late at night.

[rfleming]

the way we have it set up is so we dont have to code the nav menu onto every page. We load the iframe inside the nav menus middle table. Should i ask in the web section?

[blue60007]

I know what you're trying to do. This is the web section.

So you have an iframe, which loads the home page. On the home page, you have some buttons that link to say "page1". You want it to go to: index.php?page=page1

Is that what you're trying to do that isn't working?

[rfleming]

More or less it is what i trying to do.

[blue60007]

echo "<FORM METHOD='LINK' ACTION='index.php?page=page1'>
<INPUT TYPE="submit" VALUE="Clickable Button">
</FORM>";

Shouldn't that take you to where you want to go?

[rfleming]

the current issue is i use if ($_POST[var1] == "something" ) display a certian part of the page, else display a different part

if ( $_POST[attack] == "attack" )
{
//run attack code
}
else
{
//show user info
//show form to set up attack
}

[blue60007]

OK, I think I see where your problem comes about, but since I'm no PHP expert, I really don't know what to tell you. Anyone else here know PHP?