Re: Putting contents into an inline frame

Sitruc,

Clearly this is beyond my skills. I just haven't done much in the way of Java. PHP and ASP are WAY out of my grasp. This is not an overly complicated site, and at this stage, my plans are very fluid, but I'm sure you've determined, my skills are very limited here. I'd welcome your help, but don't want to put you through the trials of teaching a beginner the ropes. I'm sure you've got more important things to do.

Let me ask you this, though. If I would like to become more knowledgeable in this regard, what training and or books would you recommend? Would you say PHP and SQL is the direction to take? I"ve heard Cold Fusion is very popular as well. I'd like to become more skilled for this website, as well as offer my company my skills in other areas as well. What would you recommend?

With regards to the site... Do you think there might be an easier way of doing what I'm suggesting? I'm sure php could handle it readily, but as I said, not my skillset. I can animate text and build 3D, but this isn't something I've ever been into.

Thanks

Remo...

[Curtis Thompson] "in that case, you need to pass a get parameter to the 2nd page that tells it what page to load, and then parse parameter either with javascript (less reliable) or make all your pages a server side script page like php or jsp or asp or the likes...

the first page link would be something like:

[a href="page2.html?isrc=software.html"]page 2[/a]

and then page 2 would parse that passed parameter and show the proper iframe source using the above code, or even simpler would just be to make the iframe source the isrc param directly...

i don't know if such a change is feasible on your site - again, you can parse the parameter and extract it using javascript on page 2, but if the user has javascript disabled (and some do for paranoia reasons), then your system won't work...but php or a server-side language can easily read parameters:

$_GET["isrc"]

so it'd be much easer to grab that parameter. but if you are not comfortable with converting your site to use a scripting language, then i could make a mockup of the javascript concept for you...

sitruc"