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TimberlandImagery

2006-02-26, 6:15 pm

My hosting service provides a PHPBB Forum software that I can link to off my
site. What I would like to do is take the Forum address and have it load in my
main site, rather than, say open a new window, or leave my main site. Is there
a way for me to do this? Does it require frames? Or am I better off having it
load in a new window?

Thanks,
-Jon

Osgood

2006-02-26, 6:15 pm

TimberlandImagery wrote:

> My hosting service provides a PHPBB Forum software that I can link to off my
> site. What I would like to do is take the Forum address and have it load in my
> main site, rather than, say open a new window, or leave my main site. Is there
> a way for me to do this? Does it require frames? Or am I better off having it
> load in a new window?

You can use an iframe to load it into your existing web template if you
so desire.

<td><iframe src="http://www.bbc.co.uk" name="MyFrame" width="400"
height="400" align="default"></iframe>
</td>

Alan Smithee Jr.

2006-02-26, 6:15 pm

> You can use an iframe to load it into your existing web template if you
> so desire.

And get Hal's iFramer to keep it there. http://tinyurl.com/mma55

Joe Makowiec

2006-02-26, 6:15 pm

On 26 Feb 2006 in macromedia.dreamweaver, TimberlandImagery wrote:

> My hosting service provides a PHPBB Forum software that I can link
> to off my site. What I would like to do is take the Forum address
> and have it load in my main site, rather than, say open a new
> window, or leave my main site. Is there a way for me to do this?
> Does it require frames? Or am I better off having it load in a new
> window?

Normally, I'd tell you to avoid frames like the plague, particularly if
you haven't used them before. This is one instance, however, where you
might what to consider it. Rather than using:

http://ispaddress.invalid/forum?id=...andImageryForum

you'd use:

http://example.com/forum/

and frame the forum inside that page. (Single frame, size *, source of
the frame is http://ispaddress.invalid/forum?id=...andImageryForum)

The main downside to this is that it won't be possible for people to
bookmark pages inside the forum. If that's not an issue, use frames.

Or, as you suggest, you could use the Open Popup Window behavior and
hide the address bar in the opened window. (FWIW, FireFox shows the
address in windows like that, though it's not editable as it would be
in the main window.)

--
Joe Makowiec
http://makowiec.net/
Email: http://makowiec.net/email.php