Iframes - Javascript PHP issue

[moontiger]

Hi there! This is my first post, so go easy on me!

I have a website that uses iframes for information that scrolls. I use a mouseover script that allows me to use scroll bar up and down images, which scrolls the contents of the iframe.

This worked like a charm pulling in html pages. I changed the link (and that is all I did - from /webpage.html to http://www.webpage.php ) to an outside page that is php. The iframe still pulls in the page, but my mouseover scroll bars are frozen. So the user cannot scroll to see the content of the iframe anymore.

I am wondering if my scroll.js script needs an addition to make it compatible for php as well as html. I am just guessing here, as I am not a coder myself.

Have a look:

// JavaScript Document


function startDiv(dir)
{
y = 1; //amount to jump by
x = 0;
delay = 10; //speed in milliseconds
moving = window.setInterval("scrollDiv("+x+","+y+","+dir+")",delay);
return true;
}
function speedDiv(dir)
{
y = 5; //amount to jump by
x = 0;
delay = 1; //speed in milliseconds
speedmoving = window.setInterval("scrollDiv("+x+","+y+","+dir+")",delay);
return true;
}
function scrollDiv(x,y,dir)
{
if (dir == 1)
{
self.frames["myiframe"].scrollBy (x,-y);
}
else
{
self.frames["myiframe"].scrollBy (x,y);
}
}
function stopSpeedDiv()
{
if (speedmoving)
{
window.clearInterval(speedmoving);
}
}
function stopDiv()
{
if (moving)
{
window.clearInterval(moving);
}
}


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Just for reference, here is the mouseover script:

<a href="#" onMouseOver="startDiv(1);" onMouseOut="stopDiv();MM_swapImgRestore();" onMouseDown="speedDiv(1);" onMouseUp="stopSpeedDiv();" onClick="return false;"><img src="images/arrow_up.gif" alt="" width="30" height="22" border="0"></a>

<a href="#" onMouseOver="startDiv(2);" onMouseOut="stopDiv();MM_swapImgRestore();" onMouseDown="speedDiv(2);" onMouseUp="stopSpeedDiv();" onClick="return false;"><img src="images/arrow_down.gif" alt="" width="30" height="22" border="0"></a>

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Here is the iframes code:

<iframe src="http://www.website.com/folder/webpage.php" name="myiframe" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" class="maintxt" style="width: 345px; height: 299px;">


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To note, I realize that I can say scrolling 'yes' on the iframe and get one of the ugly scroll bars to appear. Already solved that for the html page that got called into the iframe so I could use my own images for the scroll up and down functions, instead of the ugly scroll bars. All I need is for it to work with this URL with php extension.

If that is possible.

Thanks in advance for your help.

[7stud]

I am wondering if my scroll.js script needs an addition to make it compatible for php as well as html.

Browsers can only load html pages. A page with a .php extension is a signal to the server to hand over the file to the php parser before sending the page to the browser. The php parser then executes the php, and the result is a pure html page. That pure html page then gets sent to the browser. Therefore, as far as the browser knows, they are both html pages.

Javascript has certain security restrictions. One of which is, if you have a page from some domain other than yours that you load into an iframe, you can't do much to the page. You could be bumping up against those security restrictions with your custom scroll bar script.

I am just guessing here, as I am not a coder myself.

When you post something like that, it implies that you are saying:

"Please don't bother explaining what's wrong with my script because I don't know anything about javascript, so I won't be able to understand what you are talking about. Just fix it."

Generally, you are not going to get any responses to that unless you add,

"I'm willing to hire a js coder for $50/hr to fix it."