How do I achieve this?Iframe?

[freebsdntu]

Hi, the design is like this.

In a webpage,I have a left side navigator occupying about 20% of the width,the remain 80% on the right becomes the content part.

Say in the navigation bar,there are several links, and I would like to display corresponding contents on the right depending on which link the user presses. How do I achieve this? I have heard of the Iframe approach, but my concern is the compatibility with browsers,is there an alternative way to achieve it in php?

Thank you very much!

[adam291086]

You can set the url up to do something like

 

www.yourdomain.com?page=1

www.yourdomain.com?page=2

www.yourdomain.com?page=3

 

Store all the page details in a database. The use the $_get function to get the page id. Then query the database on the page id and echo out all the information from the results.

 

 

[freebsdntu]

Wow,that's nice,no wonder I see all those ?page= strings in many urls. I would definitely look into this.

By the way,what actually does the ? symbol function there? Any good tutorials on this? Thank you very much!

[adam291086]

To be honest i dont know what the ? does. All i know is that you need it. Hopefully one of the gurus will know.

[freebsdntu]

I just did a google search,if I understand it correctly,it should be implying the start of a query string.

Back to the main issue,if I do that,I would have to load the entire page,don't I?

What if I only want to load the content portion,rather then the link portion which is the same for all the pages?

[adam291086]

From what i understand the links will remain the same and dont reload. All that is changing is the query results. Therefore all thats changing is the content.

 

So when you click a link. The query results will change automatically and that content will be displayed. You will on have one page for all your information.

 

 

[freebsdntu]

Wow,that's great,can you give me some solid examples?Like how do I change the content?

[adam291086]

<?php
include 'config.php';


//button stuff
$search = adam

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM RTE WHERE Page_Group ='$search' ") or die(mysql_error());
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
{
$pagename = $row['Page_Name'];
echo '<a href="http://adamplowman.co.uk/cycling/rte/rte.php?pagename='.urlencode($pagename).'">'. $pagename.'</a>';
echo "<br />";
} 
include 'closedb.php';
?>

 

That search my database for all the pages related to adam. It then creates a link with the name adam.

then when the link is pressed the following code will be on that page.

 

$result = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM  RTE WHERE Page_Name = '$search'");
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($result))
  {
  $text = $row['text'];
  $id= $row['text_id'];
  $title= $row['title'];
$subtitle= $row['sub_heading'];
   }

 

this select all the information about adam and sets it into a variable. Then in my html code i just do echo $text;

 

Hope this helps

 

 

 

[freebsdntu]

thank you,adam,that's very useful piece of information,I am gonna study it thoroughly.Thank you very much!

[adam291086]

it's ok. Just make sure you understand whats going on ect.