Basically, I want the same effect as the oldschool html 'frameset' I think.
Take a look at this page please:
http://onomadesign.com/wordpress/identity-design/alteon-a-boeing-company/
If a user selects a project from industry -> transportation for example, I would like that the right scrollmenu keeps its initial state when the new project page comes up. So they won't get lost and have to click again to be in the same submenu section.
So, the right thumbnail navigation should stay in the same way, I don't want it to reload.
Do I have to do it with frames or iframes? Or can I make some kind of jQuery call to 'not reload' that div? Maybe PHP? I'm sorry, I am not a programmer from origin.
Update:
Guys, I managed to put the whole thumbnail navigation code into a seperate php file, called sidebar.php. Now this gets called in my single.php (Wordpress) by <?php get_sidebar(); ?>.
Should it now be easier to make this sidebar.php NOT refresh on page reload? I've been looking at cookies, php sessions, iframes.. but I can't get it to work.
Any more help would be greatly appreciated!
Facebook kinda does this without frames for optimization's sake. They take every single link and, if supported, using AJAX to load the page content without reloading the layout.
Obviously, this sort of thing may require significant restructuring of the internals of your app. Another option is to simply store the menu's state as a cookie on link click (see the jQuery Cookie plugin) and, on every reload, either have Javascript look at the cookie and dynamically restore the menu to its correct state, or use your internal PHP to read the cookie and decide what menu to display.
But if you get really desperate, you may end up falling back on frames. Sometimes that can be okay - but try everything else first :)
You also can detect what menu item was activated (you got the page request due to clicking on the corresponding link) and use this information to restore/select this menu item.
At least that is what I do and... No cookies or AJAX required!
You can use a technique known as "AHAH" Asynchronous HTML and HTTP. Essentially you're doing a jQuery
$.post("whatever.html",function(data) {
$("contentdivelement").html(data);
}
You can wrap this in a function like:
updateContent(sPage) {
$.post(sPage,function(data) {
$("contentdivelement").html(data);
}
}
This will load the content from your "frame" page into the div without reloading the page.
You can also bind to each of the navigation links and use their HREF as your path to load in your content div such as:
$(".menuLink").click(function() {
var menuLink = $(this).attr('href');
updateContent(menuLink);
/* prevents the browser from taking the parent to that link */
return false;
});
ADDITION:
Your menu may look like this:
<ul class="myMenu">
<li>Frame 1</li>
<li>Frame 2</li>
</ul>
Also,
If you want it to remember the page you're on you can use cookies or #anchors. There are many ways to add "tab" or "menu" anchors but one way would just be to use a jQuery plugin.
The most COMMON and TRENDY way to do it is to use #anchors. Your browser address bar ass #frame1 to the end so when the page is refreshed or reloaded it will load up "frame1" automatically with some additional code.
You can even called the anchor #/frame1.html and read the anchor in
$(document).ready(function() {
/* you'll need to either use a plugin or parse out the anchor from your current browser address bar */
updateContent(anchorContentVar);
});
Instead of updating your content using click-handlers I suggest a slightly different approach. Just replace your hyperlinks with this kind of link:
#info_page
Now set up a simple interval that reads out the current URL and updates the DIV accordingly:
__LOC = document.location.href;
setInterval(function(){
if (__LOC!=document.location.href) __LOC=document.location.href;
var fetchURL = __LOC.split("#")[1];
$.get( "/getcontent/"+fetchURL, function(d){ $("#mydiv").html( d ); } )
} 1000);
This allows visitors to use bookmarks as well.
Related
To be clear - Ive already checked other Questions about refreshing div and the ideas I found were not exactly what I look for.
My site is made of plenty pages with the same header and footer (top, bottom, menu on both sides). I use smarty templates, and the Whole action of every page happens in one <div id="content">.
My users use to refresh most of those pages many times to do an action they've already done once again. With refreshing browser loads again header, footer, viewed page etc. I would like to bring them the button (instead of F5) which will refresh just a current content page (e.g. account.php) without refreshing whole site.
One of plenty structure:
<?php
$title = 'OneOfPlenty';
require_once("includes/head.php");
{
Whole action
}
require_once("includes/foot.php");
?>
header.tpl ends with <div id="content"> then comes
onofplenty.tpl and then in
footer.tpl I got </div> (close the content)
Here comes the question: Is it even possible? Am I able to create such a flexible button which will recognize which page is being displayed and will "know" to refresh just the content of this page?
Any ideas and help will be aprreciated.
Thank you
TTed
You could do an Ajax call with jQuery to get the output html of the tpl file of the page.
You could use an Ajax call, e.g. by using the jQuery get() function, e.g. like this
$.get("includes/account.php", function(data) {
$("#content").html(data);
alert("Load was performed.");
});
If you saved some kind of variable, either to session or to a data-content on your div. Just so you know which page you are on. Say if you are on account.php you set $('#content').attr("data-content", "account"). Then if you press the refresh button you could use an ajax get on $('#content').attr("data-content") + 'php' to re-import the data. Could be done with a SESSION variable as well.
I thought this would be really simple but obviously after a couple of days trial and no success I have to ask the people to help, looked everywhere.
right im basically creating a php template without much guidance on the foundation 4 framework with is a responsive framework. Now this framework is rather basic and so to add page transitions ive had to use jquery to do what i believe is an ajax call to take "content" from another page and display it on the template page index.html
for which I am currently using the following
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$('nav.top-bar > section.top-bar-section > ul.right > li > a').click(function() {
var toLoad = $(this).attr('href')+' #content';
$('#content').hide(1000,loadContent);
$('#load').remove();
$('#main_wrapper').append('<span id="load">LOADING...</span>');
$('#load').fadeIn('fast');
window.location.hash = $(this).attr('href').substr(0,$(this).attr('href').length-0);
function loadContent() {
$('#content').load(toLoad,showNewContent);
}
function showNewContent() {
$('#content').show(1000,hideLoader);
}
function hideLoader() {
$('#load').fadeOut('fast');
}
return false;
});
});
</script>
NOW before i changed over to using ajax and jquery i was operating the menu "active" class and the page name with a simple variable set on each page in the first line listed as $page='' and then the page name
now that im loading the content with ajax even if i include this variable in the content of the new page it will not update in either the or the menu title
im very sorry i dont write things correctly im new to this forum thing
thank you for the help in advance
:) I prefer someone to explain what i need to do and how to do it rather than just copy and pasting code as im a learner :)
You probably want to load the page and parse the result in jQuery to get the new page’s <title> tag and set the requesting page’s <title> tag.
The only thing I’d ask is: why are you doing this? Are you just wanting AJAX page navigation in your website instead of the traditional propagating navigation?
I am only able to answer one part of your question due to extreme confusion, so:
First off, here's why your url changes:
window.location.hash = $(this).attr('href').substr(0,$(this).attr('href').length-0);
You are modifying it with that line. That line, however, has an interesting little quirk:
attr('href').length-0
at the end. Why the -0? That would make no difference. I'd clean it up.
Outside of that, I'm incredibly confused with what you're asking so let me try rephrasing it and you can tell me what I'm missing.
You want to have a user click on a navigation link, and load that link's content via an AJAX call using jQuery, and then replace the content on the page with the newly loaded page, correct?
When you say "right on top main page i have variable $page = then the page name", what do you mean by "main page"? Do you mean it's a line of text in HTML? Part of a script that you haven't included here? Part of your PHP code?
And then you say "ive tried including the tag in a div that changes along with the above content"- what is "the tag"?
By reading this 4 or 5 times I could barely discern the above understanding of what you're trying to do.
Please make heavy edits to you question- it's incredibly hard to understand.
Lastly, why are you trying to replace the browser's functionality of a user clicking a link and loading content? That's what the browser is for. The browser also, conveniently, has a loading indicator in the url bar usually (or some form thereof), letting the user know the content is still loading.
function loadContent() {
$('#content').load(toLoad,showNewContent);
}
So first off, look at the jQuery doc for the load method:
http://api.jquery.com/load/
Your issue is that it is calling for three arguments, and you are passing two. If there are multiple arguments listed and you only want to pass SOME of them, you still need to supply a null value for the ones you want to "skip". Try changing your call to this:
function loadContent() {
$('#content').load(toLoad, null, showNewContent);
}
You'll notice that I'm passing "null". If that doesn't work, pass an empty string, like this:
function loadContent() {
$('#content').load(toLoad, "", showNewContent);
}
That second argument is data to be passed with the request. It's the THIRD argument that you list as your callback, which as far as I can tell is where you're making the mistake.
I have an index.php with two major sections: the navbar and the main-content. The navbar contains links which will load another webpage to the main-content through this jQuery code:
jQuery('#main-content').load('sampleurl');
Some of these web pages contain links to another web page, so I want to add a back button.
I tried using the history.back() and history.go(-1), as well as the $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER'], but they don't really work in my case.
How will I add the back button in this situation?
You should keep your last viewed page in JavaScript variable or in value of hidden input and then you only need to add button with
jQuery('#main-content').load(old_url);
You must always update your variable when you load your next page via jQuery('#main-content').load('sampleurl');
Try manipulating the javascript location or location.hash
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/window.location
Of course, you need to be able to turn your URL back into the relevant page content too.
In conjunction with both Charlie and Michael's answers, since you are already using jQuery, another option is to include the jQuery Address plugin.
You can implement this idea, by creating a function to read a hash path to load new content. Following this, the content can be navigated by the built-in back + forward buttons.
The only challenge I foresee with this implementation is associating the new content with the hash path.
Good luck!
Just an idea: Add hash to Url whenever you load the page; and then you can use history.back()
$(function(){
if(window.location.hash === 'sampleurl'){
jQuery('#main-content').load('sampleurl', function(){
window.location.hash = 'sampleurl'; //<<-- match with your loaded page;
});
}
});
good luck !
I'm using a simple script to reload a div
$('#mydiv').fadeOut('300').load('# #mydiv').fadeIn("300");
The problem is that the div I'm reloading has the Facebook like button inside it. After the DIV reloads, I can see it updated inside the source, but the button is hidden for some reason.
Is there any way to force the button to re-draw?
As I stated in my comment, I think the .load is misunderstood, as you stated in your question
I can see it updated inside the source, but the button is hidden for some reason
.. so with that in mind, I assume you have load functioning with the correct parameters.
You have a synchronistic problem here. Everything you use in the chain uses a timescale, and .load() for that matter is asynchronous.
So instead of just chaining everything, you have to use the callbacks in order to know when the time scale ends for a particular function.
$('#myDiv').fadeIn('300', function() {
// callback when #myDiv is faded out (display:none;)
$(this).load('url', function() {
// callback when #myDiv is loaded with new content from the given 'url'
$(this).fadeIn('300');
})
});
The facebook button won't display because it is configured normally just AFTER document.load.
If you load the div content while the document is already loaded and the Facebook javascript SDK has already initialized. It won't work.
If facebook is not required UNTIL the div loads. You may just try to load the "all.js" script inside the div.
Otherwise, if you've come to that, you'll certainly have to review the application's design.
I am using a jquery tabbed interface here http://www.imashdigital.com/#2 and would like to return the tab number in php.
Ideally I would like to run a javascript function (on a timer) that continually updates a global php variable with the current tab.
Based on this php value, 1 through to 4, I will then load a different sidebar.
I would be grateful for any help and some code examples as I am a novice.
Kind regards
Jonathan
The part of an URI that comes after the hash is never sent to the server. There is no way that PHP can access it. Use a querystring parameter ($_GET) instead. Or use client side scripting (javascript).
I would suggest you do not run a timer but instead attach the $.post to the event "tab activation". This will make any tab change applied in real time and it won't trigger needless requests.
I have used tabbed panels in a couple recent projects, and the solution I've used is the following:
HTML
<ul class="tabs">
<li>English</li>
<li>Français</li>
</ul>
<div class="panel" id="en_en"><!-- Content --></div>
<div class="panel" id="fr_fr"><!-- Content --></div>
jQuery
// the currently selected tab, or a default tab (don't forget to prepend the #)
var tab = location.hash || '#en_en';
// register a click handler on all the tabs
$('ul.tabs a').click(function(event){
event.preventDefault(); // prevents the browser from scrolling to the anchor
// hide all panels, then use the link's href attribute to find
// the matching panel, and make it visible
// you can, of course, use whatever animation you like
$('div.panel').hide().filter( $(this).attr('href') ).show();
).filter('[href*='+tab+']').click();
// above: in case of refreshing/bookmarking: find the tab link that contains
// the current location.hash, and fire its click handler
It works well because the server-side code doesn't need to know which tab is selected, but it also supports refreshing or bookmarking a specific tab without requiring the user select the tab again.