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"how do you put new content into a small window thing?"

Well basically, i would like to open a new page inside the hompage, so that veiwers wouldn't have to load a whole new page.

here is an example of what i would like - [URL]http://www.knoxskorner.com[/URL]

if you can see the navigation and everything except the main content stays when you open a new page.

how would i do that? I'm pretty sure it's to do with PHP but besides that i haven't a clue.

thanks for any help bessant.

Well basically, i would like to open a new page inside the hompage, so that veiwers wouldn't have to load a whole new page.

here is an example of what i would like - [URL]http://www.knoxskorner.com[/URL]

if you can see the navigation and everything except the main content stays when you open a new page.

how would i do that? I'm pretty sure it's to do with PHP but besides that i haven't a clue.

thanks for any help bessant.

PHP includes.

Make a load of .txt files, or .data if you learn to do it on the fly, then link to the required file in the page using (for example):

http://www.mysitename.com/index.php?id=filename

'index.php' is the page you want to load the file in
'?id' assigns the value 'filename' to the variable 'id'

Then in your HTML coding you have this:


$format = ".txt";
$file = "$id$format";

if(file_exists("$file") == TRUE)
{ include("$file"); }
else
{ print("Sorry, that file does not exist."); }

?>


And don't forget to rename index.html to index.php, or it won't work. And check that your host actually supports PHP, or it definitely won't work.

Just had a look at that site: for the Lord our saviour Jesus Christ's soul, sake and sandals, don't use frames or iframes.

I'd probably use Flash to make something quick and easy, that works cross-browser, and you can do more interesting stuff with it, should you wish to do so.

monkey_man wrote:
> I'd probably use Flash to make something quick and easy, that works
> cross-browser, and you can do more interesting stuff with it, should
> you wish to do so.

It would work very easyly if, my navigation bar wasn't flash, my content wasn't flash, basically everything but some text and links at the bottom and the content is flash.

i'll try the PHP thing that you said before, and i'm pretty sure the host supports PHP.

thanks.

Anyway, what is wrong with frames and Iframes anyway?

be§§ant™ wrote:
> Anyway, what is wrong with frames and Iframes anyway?

All you need top knwo is frames suck. I haven't built a site using frames since 1998!

You can acheive exactly what you want using CSS, thi smakes the site more search engine friendly and easier to maintain.