Dynamic iframe and php

[swamp]

Hello all,

 

I've got this script working on my site that retrieves and displays the last 5 forum posts from my phpBB database.

 

It is all working fine, and the links re-direct to the forum properly.

 

On another page I have my forum inside an iframe to keep the main header of the website. That all works fine too.

 

I was wondering, however, how would I make the php generated links open in the iframe of this page instead of in the parent window?

 

I was thinking java may well work, but I'm not too sure how to go about integrating this into the php script.

 

Here is my php code for getposts.php:

 

 

//retrieve posts from database
$a = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM $table7 ORDER BY post_time DESC LIMIT $postlimit ")or die (mysql_error());
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($a)) {
$pid = $row['poster_id'];
$psid = $row['post_id'];
$time = $row['post_time'];
$postids = $row['forum_id'];

//Get User Name From Database For Posts
$b1 = "SELECT username AS name FROM $table6 WHERE user_id=$pid";
$b = mysql_query($b1)or die(mysql_error());
while ($row1 = mysql_fetch_array($b)) {
$name = $row1['name'];

//Get Post Info
$c1 = "SELECT post_subject AS subject FROM $table8 WHERE post_id=$psid";
$c = mysql_query($c1)or die(mysql_error());
while ($row3 = mysql_fetch_array($c)) {
$subject = $row3['subject'];

//Get Catergory & forum name
$d1 = "SELECT cat_id AS cat_id, forum_name AS fname FROM $table10 WHERE forum_id=$postids";
$d = mysql_query($d1)or die(mysql_error());
while ($row4 = mysql_fetch_array($d)) {
$catid = $row4['cat_id'];
$forum = $row4['fname'];

//Get Cat Name
$e1 = "SELECT cat_title AS cattitle FROM $table9 WHERE cat_id=$catid";
$e = mysql_query($e1)or die(mysql_error());
while ($row5 = mysql_fetch_array($e)) {
$category = $row5['cattitle'];

$current_timestamp = "$time"; 
$date = date('Y-m-d h:i:s', $current_timestamp); 


echo "

<strong>  <a href=\"$webaddress/viewtopic.php?t=$psid\">$subject</a>  </strong>

<br>


In <a href=\"$webaddress/viewforum.php?f=$postids\">$forum</a> 

by <a href=\"$webaddress/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=$pid\">$name</a>

<p>



";

}}}}}

?>

 

Any help would be more than appreciated!

 

Thanks a lot,

 

swamp.

[soycharliente]

Give your iframe a name, then in each href add

target="iframe_name"

[swamp]

Yeah, I did try that - but how do you get it to link into a new page with the iframe?

 

I've got these pages:

 

index.php - the homepage with getposts.php included using php

 

getposts.php - the page with the php code to show last 5 forum posts

 

forumdisplay.php - the page with the iframe

 

I need to be able to click on the links from index.php and it load the relative page in the iframe on forumdisplay.php

 

Cheers,

 

Kieran