Retrieving url from an iframe

[magicash]

I would like to get the url inside of my iframe and post it in the "title" above that iframe. So if google.com was in the iframe, and I clicked links inside google, the title above would change to whatever url was inside the frame.

Passing the variable through php I used:

<script language="JavaScript">
 function setvariable()
{
test = parent.location.href;
document.write(test);
 }

 </script>
  <?php
 $x = "<script>setvariable()</script>";
  ?>

This correctly passes the main url. But if I change to parent.bottom.location.href(bottom is my iframe name) it just gives me a blank for the variable. Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

This will probably not be easy due to cross-domain security. There have been only a handful of threads where the poster has successfully managed to get cross-domain iframe reading working... and I'm not even sure that worked in any browser other than IE.

Have a search of the threads to see if you can find the posts I'm talking about.

Dan


[tt]D'ya think I got where I am today because I dress like Peter Pan here?[/tt]

 

[magicash]

Hmm, well this is a tough problem I guess. Well, is there a way to open a new site if someone clicks a link inside that frame, or does this involve the same problem.

I'd like it so that if someone clicks a link inside the frame it will open up a new window with the url they clicked.

This is getting trickier that I thought.

 

[stormbind]

I do not think you are going to get far due to privacy issues.

The only time I got around the cross-domain security issues was by using a HTA.

--Glen

Memoria mihi benigna erit qui eam perscribam

 

[magicash]

Ok I'll bite What is HTA?

-Chris

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

An HTA is an HTML Application. AFAIK, they work in IE only, but are more trusted than a standard web page (although why, or how much mor secure they are, I cannot tell you).

Dan


[tt]D'ya think I got where I am today because I dress like Peter Pan here?[/tt]