Bookmarking items within an iFrame

This one has got me well and truely stumped - in fact I’m not entirely sure it’s possible.

I have an iFrame on the page which contains all the searched criteria from a database (written in php). If you scroll through the products and click on one so that on product and ll its details are displayed, how can this be sent to a customer as a url. Because it obviously still has the original pages url as the individual items are being seen through an iFrame.

I’m suspecting that an iFrame is not the best practice to use in this situation, does anyone have any ideas?

Nathan Garner email@hidden

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FW5 Pro | MacBook Pro | Leopard

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iframes, just like regular frames, break the web because they disguise the real endpoint from the browser. You cannot bookmark into an iframe. There are various JavaScript hacks to try working around this limitation, but they are hacks and they can fail.

If this is the project I think you mean, the real answer here is to get that PHP into your Freeway page. Using the iframe to “wrap” the database content with your design is working too hard for too little benefit. For one thing, it’s a catalog site full of things for sale — you actually do want Google to find and index all of that content, naturally. So any search results will be to the “bare” catalog page inserts, not to the actual page with its lovely designed wrapper and branding intact.

Ask your developers to create a template that has no HEAD or BODY tags in it, and try to merge that with your template (made in Freeway). This is a well-solved problem in PHP, but using the iframe the way you are has way too many problems associated with it and is not going to be sustainable for the future.

Walter

On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:54 AM, Nathan Garner wrote:

I’m suspecting that an iFrame is not the best practice to use in this situation, does anyone have any ideas?

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Thanks Walter - I thought you’d say that, and agree the iFrame is pretty redundant in this case. I’m on to it.

Regards

Nathan Garner email@hidden

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FW5 Pro | MacBook Pro | Leopard

On 9 Jun 2009, at 12:58, Walter Lee Davis wrote:

iframes, just like regular frames, break the web because they disguise the real endpoint from the browser. You cannot bookmark into an iframe. There are various JavaScript hacks to try working around this limitation, but they are hacks and they can fail.

If this is the project I think you mean, the real answer here is to get that PHP into your Freeway page. Using the iframe to “wrap” the database content with your design is working too hard for too little benefit. For one thing, it’s a catalog site full of things for sale — you actually do want Google to find and index all of that content, naturally. So any search results will be to the “bare” catalog page inserts, not to the actual page with its lovely designed wrapper and branding intact.

Ask your developers to create a template that has no HEAD or BODY tags in it, and try to merge that with your template (made in Freeway). This is a well-solved problem in PHP, but using the iframe the way you are has way too many problems associated with it and is not going to be sustainable for the future.

Walter

On Jun 9, 2009, at 5:54 AM, Nathan Garner wrote:

I’m suspecting that an iFrame is not the best practice to use in this situation, does anyone have any ideas?

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