accepting variable URL to display

Hi all,

I am working on some PHP and HTML, that will be used on both Windows and Unix machines here. I am stuck searching for some answers and I'm hoping maybe someone here could give me a hint or suggestion.

I currently have a page that has three frames, the top frame being a disclaimer/banner and the bottom frame is options to download, send email, etc. The problem is that I need to make the middle frame accept a variable URL sent as a variable to the page. I'm sure this can be done in either HTML or PHP or both, but I am having problems finding the answer. Has anyone done this before and/or does anyone know a good place to reference for this information?

Thanks in Advance,
Brian

You want to display all kind of different pages in the middle frame, based on the links they clicked on bottom or top frame?

If so you could do this:
<a href="blabla.html" target="MiddleFrameName">asda</a>

I'm sorry, I was unclear about what I was trying to do. I am not trying to display based on what they are clicking on, but based on what has been sent.

What is happening is that this page will go inside a lager application, and this page will display a report generated previously by a SQL call for either a parameter query or a canned report. When the call finishes, it will generate a url, which will then be passed to my page as the variable $URL much like
<input type="Submit" name="URL">
would do. The problem is that I have to take that variable and then display a page based on it.

I have tried this:
<meta href="<? $URL ?>"></meta>

trying to integrate it using php, but the page will not display.

Any suggestions?

I can only point you to some javascript resources, maybe the technique used there can help you.

http://developer.irt.org/script/frame.htm

http://tech.irt.org/articles/js126/index.htm

Succes!

I just wanted to say thank you for your help. I actually was able to get what I wanted to work finally using a simple html echo in php. Since the variable coming in was $URL, I just did this:

<frameset rows="10%,80%,10%" frameborder="no" border="1" framespacing="0">
<frame src="header.php"
frameborder="yes" border="1" framespacing="0" name="box-1"> </frame>

<?
echo "<frame src='$URL' frameborder='yes' border='1' framespacing='0' name='box-3'></frame>";
?>
...

the frame 'box-3' then takes that url and displays it accordingly.

Thanks again for pointing me to the Java scripts. Unfortunately, I was unable to make any of them work correctly :(.

Thanks,
Brian