Articles, IFRAME, and themes

[johnwalkdaily]

I'm using an <iframe> in an article to pull in an html page call maps.htm. Is there a way to inherit the theme/css? I have to explicitly call it out in the maps.htm page, but don't want to have to change the page manually if I switch themes or set it up for users to do so. I'm new to PHP, SMF, and TP.

article:

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<IFRAME marginWidth=0 marginHeight=0 src="../content/maps.htm" frameBorder=0 width="100%" scrolling=no height=285>
This option will not work correctly. Unfortunately, your browser does not support Inline Frames
</IFRAME>

maps.htm:

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Maps</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="../Themes/tp_mercury11rc2/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="tborder">
  <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <tr class="windowbg">
      <td valign="top"><span class="normaltext"><b>Parks/Trails</b>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="maps/hptrailmap.pdf" target="_blank">Howarth Park/Spring
              Lake</a> <em>(528 kb pdf)</em> </li>
          <li><a href="maps/ANNADELSP2.pdf" target="_blank">Annadel State Park </a> <em>(656
              kb pdf) </em><em>(brochure with map)</em></li>
          <li><a href="maps/wct2006.pdf" target="_blank">West County Trail, w/Joe
              Rodota Trail</a> <em>(1.82 mb pdf)</em></li>
        </ul>
        </span> </td>
      <td valign="top"><span class="normaltext"><b>Bicycle Plan Maps</b>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/cloverdale.pdf" target="_blank">Cloverdale</a><em> (469
              kb pdf)</em> </li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/healdsburg.pdf" target="_blank">Healdsburg</a> <em>(466
              kb pdf) </em></li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/Petaluma.pdf" target="_blank">Petaluma</a><em> (808
              kb pdf) </em></li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/rp_cotati.pdf" target="_blank">Rohnert Park/Cotati</a><em> (714
              kb pdf)</em> </li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/santa_rosa.pdf" target="_blank">Santa Rosa</a><em> (1.60
              mb pdf)</em> </li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/sebastopol.pdf" target="_blank">Sebastopol</a><em> (353
              kb pdf)</em> </li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/sonoma.pdf" target="_blank">Sonoma</a> <em>(409
              kb pdf)</em> </li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/sonoma_county.pdf" target="_blank">Sonoma
              County</a> <em>(5.25 mb pdf) </em></li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/Windsor.pdf" target="_blank">Windsor</a> <em>(502
              kb pdf)</em> </li>
        </ul>
        </span> </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Go to walkdaily.com and click on 'Maps' to see results.  While you're at it, let me know what you think of the site.

John
john@walkdaily.com

[feline]

first .. you must use php article and a php script to load in the iframe.

the php article:

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global $settings;
echo '
<IFRAME marginWidth=0 marginHeight=0 src="../content/maps.php&th=' . $settings['theme_url']
. '" frameBorder=0 width="100%" scrolling=no height=285>
This option will not work correctly. Unfortunately, your browser does not support Inline Frames
</IFRAME>';


the maps.php:

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$themeurl = '';
if (isset($_GET['th'])) $themeurl = $_GET['th'];

echo '
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Maps</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="' . $themeurl .'/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="tborder">
  <table border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="0" width="100%">
    <tr class="windowbg">
      <td valign="top"><span class="normaltext"><b>Parks/Trails</b>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="maps/hptrailmap.pdf" target="_blank">Howarth Park/Spring
              Lake</a> <em>(528 kb pdf)</em> </li>
          <li><a href="maps/ANNADELSP2.pdf" target="_blank">Annadel State Park </a> <em>(656
              kb pdf) </em><em>(brochure with map)</em></li>
          <li><a href="maps/wct2006.pdf" target="_blank">West County Trail, w/Joe
              Rodota Trail</a> <em>(1.82 mb pdf)</em></li>
        </ul>
        </span> </td>
      <td valign="top"><span class="normaltext"><b>Bicycle Plan Maps</b>
        <ul>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/cloverdale.pdf" target="_blank">Cloverdale</a><em> (469
              kb pdf)</em> </li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/healdsburg.pdf" target="_blank">Healdsburg</a> <em>(466
              kb pdf) </em></li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/Petaluma.pdf" target="_blank">Petaluma</a><em> (808
              kb pdf) </em></li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/rp_cotati.pdf" target="_blank">Rohnert Park/Cotati</a><em> (714
              kb pdf)</em> </li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/santa_rosa.pdf" target="_blank">Santa Rosa</a><em> (1.60
              mb pdf)</em> </li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/sebastopol.pdf" target="_blank">Sebastopol</a><em> (353
              kb pdf)</em> </li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/sonoma.pdf" target="_blank">Sonoma</a> <em>(409
              kb pdf)</em> </li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/sonoma_county.pdf" target="_blank">Sonoma
              County</a> <em>(5.25 mb pdf) </em></li>
          <li><a href="maps/cycling/Windsor.pdf" target="_blank">Windsor</a> <em>(502
              kb pdf)</em> </li>
        </ul>
        </span> </td>
    </tr>
  </table>
</div>
</body>
</html>';


Thats all ...

Fel

[johnwalkdaily]

Thanks for the rapid response, feline! I'm having a few problems.

First, I'm getting a "The page cannot be found" in the frame.

Here's what I'm seeing in the forum error log:

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admin   Today at 05:00:22 AM
71.131.15.4     bab1de2322adfdb65b81b415d542cdb7
http://walkdaily.com/index.php?action=tpadmin
8: Undefined index: tp_article_intro
File: /nfs/www/WWW_pages/smithers/walkdaily.com/Sources/TPortalAdmin.php
Line: 366

I did copy my maps.htm file, make the edits, and save it as maps.php in the same location.

[G6Cad]

The page can not be found usually turn up when the path to the page or the article is wrong

[johnwalkdaily]

I did try variations on the path:

../content/maps.php
/content/maps.php
content/maps.php
http://walkdaily.com/content/maps.php

None of them worked.

[johnwalkdaily]

Okay, I've figured out the rest.

First, I had to change the "&" to a "?" in the article code supplied by feline. Lucky guess on my part.

Second, I had to put in the <?php and ?> tags in the maps.php file.

Now everything is beautiful.

Thanks again for all the help

[G6Cad]

Strange, you shouldent have to put the php tags in the iframe if you have a php article for your iframe 

[johnwalkdaily]

The <?php ?> tags are in the maps.php file. Without the tags, the following code shows up at the top of the window above the html content:

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$themeurl = '';
if (isset($_GET['th'])) $themeurl = $_GET['th'];

Once it put in the tags, the problem went away. I also tried other themes and things appear to be working flawlessly.

john

[G6Cad]

Ah, sorry, i thought you ment in the article 

[johnwalkdaily]

Related concern:

If I select to use frame and title, I get about a 4 px dark gray space between the border of the article frame and the iframe.  If I just use the title, I get the same 4 px dark gray space between the title and the contents. See attached jpgs.

How can get rid of this so that it looks like a regular article?

Thanks,
john