A question regarding webpages (help meh?)

Good morning, tech people!

I want to build a small page.
In that page, I'll have a table spanning the full page. one row will be smaller then the other, and will serve as a place to put links.
When one of those links is clicked, I want the information needed imported from a .txt or .htm file (different files for different links).
Essentially, this would work the same as a frame-page. Since I hate frames, this seemed to me as an acceptable alternative.

The only problem is, I know Fk all about building pages beyond HTML.. Thats why I turn to you.

Could you help me out? How should I go about this?

[Mong]

I guess the easiest way will be to use seperate pages for each link, rather than importing them. If you want to be fancy, you can use "includes", I use PHP for this sort of thing.

To be honest, frames are quite safe these days - browsers handle them fine.

M.

[Mong]

This is in the wrong forum btw!

M.

It's help needed, this is tech help, right?

:'(

How do I make the browser understand that I want a certain page to be loaded in a specific part of the table?
(I need to use tables. It's torture, true, but I want to know how it works)

[Gayle29uk]

Originally posted by Mong
To be honest, frames are quite safe these days - browsers handle them fine.

As long you use the exact same resolution as the original designer, otherwise they suck big time. Me and my tiny little 15" monitor do NOT work in 1024x768 or higher so frame driven pages designed for those resolutions seriously suck

Disco: My initial thought is to use PHP includes.

if ($condition)
{
    include $file;
} else
{
    include $other;
}

Set the URL to mimic a method='get' form and then you can do an if/elseif to work out which file to include

Originally posted by Gayle28uk
As long you use the exact same resolution as the original designer, otherwise they suck big time. Me and my tiny little 15" monitor do NOT work in 1024x768 or higher so frame driven pages designed for those resolutions seriously suck

Disco: My initial thought is to use PHP includes.

if ($condition)
{
    include $file;
} else
{
    include $other;
}

Set the URL to mimic a method='get' form and then you can do an if/elseif to work out which file to include

I'm afraid my knowledge of coding is rather limited. I am the one who managed to crash his pc whilst trying to make a 'hello world' script run...
Could I mail you (if you don't mind)?

[Gayle29uk]

Originally posted by ÐiSCoRPoRaTioN
I'm afraid my knowledge of coding is rather limited. I am the one who managed to crash his pc whilst trying to make a 'hello world' script run...
Could I mail you (if you don't mind)?

Sorry, I'm at work

It's fairly simple though, the first question to answer is does your webserver have PHP running? Because if it doesn't there's no point even going into it.

If you do have PHP the code is so ridiculously easy (in theory...I've never tried doing this but it seems logical) that I could (probably) write an example for you in a couple of minutes.

Originally posted by Gayle28uk
Sorry, I'm at work

It's fairly simple though, the first question to answer is does your webserver have PHP running? Because if it doesn't there's no point even going into it.

If you do have PHP the code is so ridiculously easy (in theory...I've never tried doing this but it seems logical) that I could (probably) write an example for you in a couple of minutes.

Again with the tech talk [lol]
I'll give you a pm

[Gayle29uk]

Originally posted by ÐiSCoRPoRaTioN
Again with the tech talk [lol]
I'll give you a pm

PM answered, but for everyone else's reference I've checked my method and it works.

<a href="http://www.insertyourdomain.com/process.php?file=file1">Press me</a>

will simulate a form result using get, you can then use the variable $file in PHP \o/

Unfortunately as you don't have PHP hosting this doesn't help you so I'll let someone else come up with another solution using those icky script languages

[MT]

xssi

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/ssi.html

[sh@dow]

800x600 is still standard, you should create the site in that. I know most of you will have 1024x768 and higher but most still use 800x600

[Leshy]

Inline frames are the answer. They give you the functionality of frames without actually being frames as such. And you don't need any special support such as PHP, and there's no need to go scripting, as it's just plain basic html.

Read up on how to use iframes here.

[Mong]

IFrames are indeed damnably usefull! However they require a fairly new browser, and (until very recently) NE and IE still didn't handle them exactly the same.

Same with the whole layer concept... IE and NS needed different code! THEN there's Opera too...

/me mutters about standards compliancy making his job difficult...

M.

[bows]

thanks