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**cheeky** · Thu 4 May '00, 7:26pm

Typo Guru here

Actually, you can pick my brains on either:-

* HTML
* Javascript

and especially
* Active Server Pages

no problem too hard.

**someone** · Fri 5 May '00, 12:21am

Here's a braintester

Let's say you have vBulletin setup on a website which uses frames (frameset rows="*,400,*"):

- topframe contains navigation
- middleframe contains vBulletin
- bottomframe contains a banner

Here's the problem: when a user discovers a cool topic which he wants to email to someone else, that 'someone else' will get the url from the middle frame.

As a board admin, I want ofcourse the top & bottom frame to be displayed as well, cause they contain valuable information & navigation.

Is there any way to do this? I know the easiest way is not to work with frames, but with headers|footers|layers or whatever, but WE WANT FRAMES

Any solutions for this guys. Maybe some kind of script that tells certain pages to be placed automaticle in a frametemplate???

**cheeky** · Fri 5 May '00, 12:51am

The redirect or reference URL must point to a file that takes that information and writes the new framing out to the browser.

I don't know how vBulletin works - but it is very simple to do. I'd imagine you just need to change the reference URL in the email to one of your own that configures the browser frames.

let me know how you get on.

**someone** · Fri 5 May '00, 1:13am

Do you have any links where this redirect or reference URL script is explained? Preferable cgi...

**cheeky** · Fri 5 May '00, 1:33am

no I don't!

but I'll give you the basic skeleton.

this is the current URL that gets sent:-

HTML Guru Here - vBulletin Community Forum

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=255

change it to:-

Just a moment...

http://www.yoursite.com/forum/framehandler.asp?threadid=255

the "framehandler.asp" file simply:-

* picks up the querystring information
* stores it
* writes out the FRAMES format of your window

The middle frame has dynamic content referencing the "SHOWTHREAD" file with this query information.

I'm an ASP expert, not cgi!

<%
Dim myThread
myThread = request.querystring("threadid")
%>

<html>
<head>
</head>
<frameset frameborder=no border=0 rows='*,400,*' framespacing=0 framecolor="#000000">

<frame src="navigation.asp" border=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 noresize scrolling="no">

<frame src='http://www.yoursite.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=<%=myThread%>'> noresize scrolling="auto">

<frame src="clickbanners.asp" border=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 noresize scrolling="no">

</frameset>

<noframes>Sorry, this site uses frames! If your browser does not support them click <a href='/noframesfilehandler.asp'>here</a></noframes>
</html>

note: this has not been tested, but should be pretty close to what you need.

**someone** · Fri 5 May '00, 1:43am

I'm sorry, our server is Unix based, so I can only use cgi & php... no asp. and since I'm a newbie in scripting....

**cheeky** · Fri 5 May '00, 3:06am

well, just simply replace the ASP part with the UNIX equivalent, whatever it is. I don't use UNIX so I don't know., but it must be pretty simple.

Dr.Dollarz should be able to complete the simple conversion of the request.querystring format for you, and you've practically got the rest already.

good luck.

**Stallion** · Fri 5 May '00, 9:52am

php is simpler

create showframes.php:
------
<html>
<head>
</head>
<frameset frameborder=no border=0 rows='*,400,*' framespacing=0 framecolor="#000000">

<frame src="navigation.asp" border=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 noresize scrolling="no">

<frame src='http://www.yoursite.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=<? echo threadid; ?>'> noresize scrolling="auto">

<frame src="clickbanners.asp" border=0 marginwidth=0 marginheight=0 noresize scrolling="no">

</frameset>

<noframes>Sorry, this site uses frames! If your browser does not support them click <a href='/noframesfilehandler.asp'>here</a></noframes>
</html>
------
Just call it via showframes.php3?threadid=255

There's also another option where you can force your forums page to open up with the frame set around it...but that involves JavaScript.

**someone** · Fri 5 May '00, 1:17pm

Thanks a lot for the help guys....

I have found a javascript solution as well here:

Re-directing access within Frames

http://www.irt.org/articles/js013/index.htm

**someone** · Sun 28 May '00, 1:11pm

Re: php is simpler

Originally posted by Stallion
create showframes.php:
<frame src='http://www.yoursite.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=<? echo threadid; ?>'> noresize scrolling="auto">

I just tested it out, but it looks like this part of the code doesn't return the treadID#, in fact this is what I get when I run the script:

<frame src='http://www.yoursite.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=treadid' noresize scrolling="auto">

WHat do I have to do to fix this script?

**Mike Sullivan** · Sun 28 May '00, 5:52pm

Try making the little PHP part look like this:
<?php echo $threadid ?>

**cheeky** · Sun 28 May '00, 6:21pm

so that's what the PHP equivalent of ASP looks like.

the code here should solve "someone"'s problem.

cheers

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