website redirect system needed to solve iframe problem

m_stan · 09-08-2005 09:32AM #1

My website uses iframes to load a content page into a framset.

The directory structure looks a little like this:

index.php (contains frameset)
/photos/index.php (loads into framset)
/contact/indexc.php (loads into framset)
etc

My site nav loads the content into the framset using the target tag. No worries there.

My problem arises when someone loads www.MYSITE.com/photos/ - just the content of the photo's page gets loaded and I loose the outside framset with navigation etc.

Now, I guess I can fix this by redirecting all requests to /photos/ to /index.php?page=photos and tweaking /index.php to look for the "page" parameter and populate the contents iframe dynamically.

Three questions. Assuming I can't redesign the site, and I'm stuck with iframes:

1). Is the above approach the easiest and best way to solve my problem
2). How do I set up the redirects (I'm using Apache - use httpd.conf ? How ?). I can do the parameter checking and iframe population myself.
3). If I needed to capture all other possible (and unknown) parameters to /photos/ eg: /photos/?page=1&pix=all&1=2&3=4 etc, how can I implement this ?

Thanks in advance for your help

Webmonkey · 09-08-2005 10:06AM

rename the files in photos and contact from index to say photo.php and contact.php
place an index file in each.
index.php:

<?php header("location: http://www.mysite.com"); ?>
<HTML>
<TITLE>Redirection</TITLE>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

place that file as index in both folders and it will redirect to where you specify in the header

m_stan · 09-08-2005 01:00PM

ok that works perfectly except for one thing - if I want to pass parameters to the /photos/photo.php I cannot capture these in /photos/index.php since I'm rediecting right away.

Am I correct in this, and is there a way to capture any possible parameters and pass this back to /index.php ?

Many thanks. It's the simple solutions that always get you. I couldn't see the wood for the trees !

m_stan · 09-08-2005 03:41PM

I was incorrect in the above. I can check for any parameters as normal. As below.

<?php
	$g = $_REQUEST['g'];
	$p = $_REQUEST['p'];

header("location: /?page=photos&g=".$g."&p=".$p);
?>
<HTML>
<TITLE>Redirection</TITLE>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>

All works perfectly now. Thanks for helping me see the error in my ways.

btw - I still have frames. Just used them to make the site redesign so much easier (change the css of the old pages, and pull the existing pages into a newly designed frameset).

Here's my hard work for anyone that's interested. www.ragorder.com (still lots of firefox css cleaning up to do !)

Webmonkey · 09-08-2005 05:35PM

Well done

smeggle · 09-08-2005 11:18PM

nice site but.... em Why do you need Frames?

m_stan · 10-08-2005 08:23AM

thanks.

I needed freams becuase I had an existing site that needed a redesign. To make things easier (ie: avoid starting all over again), I implemented frames to load the exdisting pages into the new frameset. That way, all I needed to do was update the CSS that the site was using and design a framset around the content. This made it a much simpler redesign, though now I have to live with the downsides of frames.

Serbian · 10-08-2005 09:24AM

There's a slight problem with the page there. It scrolls for roughly 8000 pixels after the bottom of the page

. Here's the culprit:

<iframe name="bodycontent" src="home.html" height="[b]8000[/b]" width="571" frameborder="0"></iframe>

m_stan · 10-08-2005 09:49AM

thanks. there's some reason I did this to workaround another frame problem I had. can't remember, and it doesn't bother me enough to fix it

maybe one day when I have too much time

website redirect system needed to solve iframe problem

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