making an article out of....

[shadrach]

This. It comes in so many formats and other things, but none of them seem like they would work for SMF. Anyone have any ideas?

[Lesmond]

Which bit do you want to make an article out of? we might need a bit more info

[shadrach]

Sorry. Its a book about drugs and medications, and available in all of those formats. Each one is a different page pertaining to the medication.

[Lesmond]

Ok I have had a look at this, you need to download the files for html, unzip it and place it in its own folder ie: /drugs/ on your server, then you need place an Iframe in your article, I have used this code below as it will resize the frame to fit

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<script type="text/javascript">

/***********************************************
* IFrame SSI script II- © Dynamic Drive DHTML code library (http://www.dynamicdrive.com)
* Visit DynamicDrive.com for hundreds of original DHTML scripts
* This notice must stay intact for legal use
***********************************************/

//Input the IDs of the IFRAMES you wish to dynamically resize to match its content height:
//Separate each ID with a comma. Examples: ["myframe1", "myframe2"] or ["myframe"] or [] for none:
var iframeids=["myframe"]

//Should script hide iframe from browsers that don't support this script (non IE5+/NS6+ browsers. Recommended):
var iframehide="yes"

var getFFVersion=navigator.userAgent.substring(navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Firefox")).split("/")[1]
var FFextraHeight=parseFloat(getFFVersion)>=0.1? 16 : 0 //extra height in px to add to iframe in FireFox 1.0+ browsers

function resizeCaller() {
var dyniframe=new Array()
for (i=0; i<iframeids.length; i++){
if (document.getElementById)
resizeIframe(iframeids[i])
//reveal iframe for lower end browsers? (see var above):
if ((document.all || document.getElementById) && iframehide=="no"){
var tempobj=document.all? document.all[iframeids[i]] : document.getElementById(iframeids[i])
tempobj.style.display="block"
}
}
}

function resizeIframe(frameid){
var currentfr=document.getElementById(frameid)
if (currentfr && !window.opera){
currentfr.style.display="block"
if (currentfr.contentDocument && currentfr.contentDocument.body.offsetHeight) //ns6 syntax
currentfr.height = currentfr.contentDocument.body.offsetHeight+FFextraHeight;
else if (currentfr.Document && currentfr.Document.body.scrollHeight) //ie5+ syntax
currentfr.height = currentfr.Document.body.scrollHeight;
if (currentfr.addEventListener)
currentfr.addEventListener("load", readjustIframe, false)
else if (currentfr.attachEvent){
currentfr.detachEvent("onload", readjustIframe) // Bug fix line
currentfr.attachEvent("onload", readjustIframe)
}
}
}

function readjustIframe(loadevt) {
var crossevt=(window.event)? event : loadevt
var iframeroot=(crossevt.currentTarget)? crossevt.currentTarget : crossevt.srcElement
if (iframeroot)
resizeIframe(iframeroot.id);
}

function loadintoIframe(iframeid, url){
if (document.getElementById)
document.getElementById(iframeid).src=url
}

if (window.addEventListener)
window.addEventListener("load", resizeCaller, false)
else if (window.attachEvent)
window.attachEvent("onload", resizeCaller)
else
window.onload=resizeCaller

</script>

<iframe id="myframe" src="http://www.path-to-drugs-folder" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" style="width: 100%; display: none;" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

near the bottom of this code you will see "path-to-drugs-folder" you will need to replace the path in there with your own, once done put all this code above in an article.

Demo here http://lesmond.homedns.org/smf/index.php?page=8

[Skhilled]

Nice job, Les!

[shadrach]

Um, now how do I get it to adjust to the size of the page its displaying?
http://bpfriends.elixarweb.com/index.php?page=9

[Lesmond]

I dont know if this will make any difference,  your code is slightly changed from the one I posted above.

this is the code from your site

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<iframe scrolling="no" frameborder="0" id="myframe" src="http://your-site.com/drugs" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" style="width: 100%; display: none;"></iframe>

and mine

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<iframe id="myframe" src="http://my-site.org/drugs/" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" vspace="0" hspace="0" style="width: 100%; display: none;" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>

[Lesmond]

I have just tested your article, on my test site and it just wont auto scroll, both have the same code! 

http://lesmond.homedns.org/smf/index.php?page=9 this is from your site

http://lesmond.homedns.org/smf/index.php?page=8 this is mine

[shadrach]

Very strange, but thanks for the help it getting it working. :-)

[Lesmond]

one other way is just use an iframe on its own

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<iframe name="I1" src="http://bpfriends.elixarweb.com/drugs/" width="100%" height="10740" border="0" frameborder="0">
Your browser does not support inline frames or is currently configured not to display inline frames.
</iframe>