Linking to an iframe

Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 1:36 pm (20 years, 11 months ago)

Hey guys, I'm not a master of code so maybe you can help me with a predicament I'm in. I'm trying to link from a website that is not frames to a 3rd party shopping cart software which I would like to put in an iframe on a page called "cart.html" The way this is currently set up is to have a link that is coded to add the different products (www.cartwebsite.com?cartid^productinfo). Is there a way to do this?

In case I didnt explain clearly, I have 2 pages, reloadables.htm, and cart.html. cart.html has an iframe on it. I want to have a link that goes from reloadables.htm to cart.html and dynamically sets the iframe to another page.

Thanks for your time.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

PHP would be the easiest way to do it:

Code:

<?php
echo('<iframe src="http://www.cartwebsite.com.com/?cartid='.$_GET['cartid'].'"></iframe');
?>

You'd then call this script: script.php?cartid=whatever, and it would load http://www.cartwebsite.com.com/?cartid=whatever. Or am I going off on a false track? Question

Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 5:59 pm (20 years, 11 months ago)

I dont know if this will affect anything, but the link I'm putting in the iframe has a "?" in it. Heres what an actual link is:

<a href=http://www.cartserver.com/sc/cart.cgi?item=a-1358^123^book^5.11^1">add to cart</a>

It's a third party software thats run from their servers, so the cart id (ie. a-1358) tells them to use my cart with my settings and to send the order to me, etc. The other info separated by the " ^ " passes along all the information needed for each item added. This link would add 1 book for $5.11 to the cart. See?

Will the php still work with this? If so please explain how I implement that because I'm not in the least bit familiar with php.

Thanks again for your help.

Team Member Joined: 06 Jan 2002 Posts: 2564

Just link to script.php?item=123^book^5.11^1 and then use this code for the iframe:

Code:

<?php
echo('<iframe src="http://www.cartserver.com/sc/cart.cgi?item=a-1358^'.$_GET['item'].'"></iframe');
?>

Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 6:51 pm (20 years, 11 months ago)

So I just change the name of cart.html to script.php and use that code for the iframe and it will work?

Thanks a bunch

Posted: Tue May 27, 2003 10:13 pm (20 years, 11 months ago)

I just used the code like you said and the iframe didnt show up on the script.php page. I copied the link you supplied into reloadables.htm and the iframe code into cart.html which i renamed script.php and when i clicked the link it opened script.php fine but didnt open the iframe. They were uploaded to the server at the time as test files. Am I missing something? Like I said, my knowledge of PHP is akin to my knowledge of the cultural diversities of Bulgaria.

Thanks yet again for your time.