Provide a link to one page multiple frames 1

robrichardson · Feb 11, 2004

Hi there.

I need to be able to provide a link to customers which when they follow the link will take them to a webpage with three frames. These three frames are often never the same so somehow I need to put in the URL the names/links of each page to be loaded into the frames.

Do I need to set up a dummy page which has variables passed with it (eventually the link which is given to the customer) ie.

http://www.company.com/dummypage.asp?P1=page1.asp&P2=page2.asp&P3=page3.asp

Then somewhere in this page run a script which sets the frames up with the passed variables ie.

function setFrames(Page1,Page2,Page3){
Request.getParameter("P1&quot

; //not sure how to get the values from the URL

document.location.href=P1;
parent.leftFrame.document.location.href=P2;
parent.topFrame.document.location.href=P3;

I've tried all sorts of things but still no solution, any help?

ggriffit · Feb 11, 2004

check out

http://www.greggriffiths.org/webdev/clientside/javascript/framemanager/

for an exmaple of how to do this.

Mr3Putt · Feb 11, 2004

Since you're using ASP pages... you can make your "DUMMY" page an ASP page, and pass in the params, then process the whole "selection" process server-side. Here's a sample with 3 frames (Header, Menu, and Content).

The link to this page would look like:

http://www.mysite.com/dummy.asp?h=h1&m=m2&c=contentpage

Code:

<%
option explicit
dim header, menu, content
header = (Request(&quot;h&quot;) & &quot;&quot;)
menu = (Request(&quot;m&quot;) & &quot;&quot;)
content = (Request(&quot;c&quot;) & &quot;&quot;)
if header = &quot;&quot; then
  header = &quot;defaultHeader&quot;
end if
if menu = &quot;&quot; then
  menu = &quot;defaultMenu&quot;
end if
if content = &quot;&quot; then
  content = &quot;defaultContent&quot;
end if
%>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<frameset rows=&quot;80,*&quot;>
  <frame id=&quot;header&quot; name=&quot;header&quot; src=&quot;/headers/<%=header%>.htm&quot;>
  <frameset cols=&quot;200,*&quot;>
    <frame id=&quot;menu&quot; name=&quot;menu&quot; src=&quot;/menus/<%=menu%>.htm&quot;>
    <frame id=&quot;content&quot; name=&quot;content&quot; src=&quot;/pages/<%=content%>.htm&quot;>
  </frameset>
</frameset>
<noframes>
<body><h3>My God, Man! Update your Browser!</h3></body>
</noframes>
</html>

something similar to that should work...

robrichardson · Feb 18, 2004

Thanks for both replies

I used the asp version so special thanks to Mr3Putt, worked a treat, exactly how I wanted it to work.

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Provide a link to one page multiple frames 1

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