Why wont this resize of iframe height work? - php

I have a form on my main page (main.html) with the target set to an iframe on that page. The action of the frame on the main page is a php file.
So, the php file displays in the iframe basically.
Now, I have this script in the php file to get height of content:
var x = document.body.scrollHeight;
window.parent.document.getelementbyid("iframe001").style.height=x;
If I alert x, the scrollheight is there, so x IS the scrollheight definetely. That part works.
But, I cant set that value to the height of the iframe (iframe001).
Any ideas why I cant do this? And how to do it?
Thanks

getelementbyid should be getElementById
also this answer might help you dynamic iframe height depending on PHP content?

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include php file only at certain screen resolutions

I'm having issues with adsense on responsive design. One solution I found is to not load them at all if window size is not big enough. So I thought I would create a separate php file with advertisement code, container etc... and than include it on a page. However, I can't figure out how to only include this file if, lets say, window width is 720px or above, else don't include this file.
Perhaps, javascript can be used some way, not sure how it will work with all the dom and php includes though.
You can try something like:
<script language=javascript>
if (screen.width >= 720 )
$('#place_holder_div').load('file_from_server.php');
</script>
Here #place_holder_div is a div in your html file. The syntax is Jquery but of course you can use plain javascript if you wish. The code looks at the screen width and if greater than 720 pixels, loads the php file file_from_server.php (which will contain your ad) into the placeholder div.
The only way to know what the window or screen size of a client is, is by using JavaScript.
window.innerHeight; // Available height of the browser for the document
window.innerWidth; // Available width of the browser for the document
window.outerHeight; // Browser height
window.outerWidth; // Browser width
window.screen.height; // Screen height
window.screen.width; // Screen width
After inspecting these, you could do a HTTP request for the relevant file. It is, however, probably not the best solution since the user can actually change any size mentioned above at any given time.

random images with background: linking to a random image php script - simpler and better way

I know there has to be a better way to do this.
Currently I have a php script which will generate a random image from a certain directory when called.
I have div's calling the background.php file in the stylesheet under the div's background setting
background:url(randomimagescript.php);
There are a lot of little div's on this page right now, all calling separate random image php scripts... is there a way I could use a variable when calling the file, so I can just use one script? I still need to have good styling control over the image, so i'm not sure if there is a better option than calling the script as a background image for a div.
If anyone has any ideas, let me know!
try this (it might not be optimal):
background:url("randomimagescript.php?folder=myfolder");
and in randomimagescript.php:
<?php
$folder = #_$REQUEST['folder'];
$url = "galleries/$folder/thumbs/image.jpg"; // ie, compose image
http_redirect($url); // go and find the image.
?>
It sounds a little crazy, but you could actually make your stylesheet be generated by PHP, and just fill in the blank, so to speak.
background:url(<? echo pickRandomImage(); ?>)
set the background for all divs once on the page using jquery
var image = <?echo randomimagescript.php?>
$("div").css('background', 'url('+ image+ ')');

How do i get jquery variables in agiletoolkit (aka ATK4)?

I need to get the window height and width of the browser using ATK4, the lightweight php framework with jquery
The javascript to get this would be
$(window).height();
$(window).width();
As agiletoolkit integrates with jquery, i think it should be possible to get it with something like
$height=$p->js()->univ()->_selectorWindow()->height();
but this doesnt work, instead when i pass the $height variable to be used, in the HTML source i get the following .
'height':$(window).univ().height(),'width':$(window).univ().width()
and it doesnt display the element at all
I want to be able to call jqplot to set the width of a graph to the full width of the users browser on a particular page. To do this, i need to pass a parameter which is width:NNN where NNN is the number of pixels wide. As far as i know, jqplot doesnt support a parameter as a percentage so i cant say width:100%. Also, if i set a div on the page and add the graph, it also ignores the size of the div and creates a small graph 400 x 300 pixels only.
I created a plugin to use jqplot from atk4 but this is one of the issues I still need to resolve. I can pass a height and width as parameters without issue but i want it to default to the full screen size if no parameters are specified.
Can anyone suggest the right syntax for getting these values ? TIA.
what you should understand is that "$p->js()->_selectorWindow()->height();" will actually be translated to "$(window).height();" -- but you can get width of window ONLY at client side.
so, if you want to get height of the window in your code, you can do that only by using ajax request, where actual heigh is sent back from the frontend.
please, rephrase your question so that it's clear what you need height for so I can suggest best way of doing that.
example of how to get backend and frontend interlinked:
paste this in page/test.php and open up http://example/test to see in action
class page_test extends Page {
function init(){
parent::init();
$b=$this->add("Button");
$b->set("Get Width");
$b->js("click")->univ()->ajaxec($this->api->getDestinationURL(), array("width" => $this->js(true)->_selectorWindow()->width()));
$v=$this->add("View_HtmlElement")->setElement("div")->set("Click button to get width of the window");
if ($w = $_POST["width"]){
$v->js(null, $v->js()->html("Width: " . $w))->univ()->alert("Width: " . $w)->execute();
}
}
}

Lightbox image / link URL

Basically I have a slightly non-standard implementation of FancyBox. By default you have to include a link to the large version of the image so that the Lightbox can display it. However, in my implementation, the image link URLs point to a script rather than directly to the image file. So for example, instead of:
<a href="mysite/images/myimage.jpg" rel="gallery">
I have:
<a href="mysite/photos/view/abc123" rel="gallery">
The above URL points to a function:
public function actionPhotos($view)
{
$photo=Photo::model()->find('name=:name', array(':name'=>$view));
if(!empty($photo))
{
$this->renderPartial('_photo', array('photo'=>$photo, true));
}
}
The "$this->renderPartial()" bit simply calls a layout file which includes a standard HTML tag to output.
Now when the user clicks on a thumbnail, the above function is called and the large image is displayed in the Lightbox.
Now if the user right clicks on the thumbnail and selects "open in new tab/window" then the image is displayed in the browser as per normal, i.e. just the image. I want to change this so that it displays the image within a layout.
In the above code I can include the following and put it in an IF statement:
$this->render('photos', array('photo'=>$photo));
This will call the layout file "photos" which contains the layout to display the image in.
I have a specific limitation for this - the image URL must remain the same, i.e. no additional GET variables in the URL. However if we can pass in a GET variable in the background then that is OK.
I will most likely need to change my function above so that it calls a different file for this functionality.
EDIT: To demonstrate exactly what I am trying to do, check out the following:
http://www.starnow.co.uk/KimberleyMarren
Go to the photos tab and hover over a thumbnail - note the URL. Click the thumbnail and it will open up in the Lightbox. Next right click on that same thumbnail and select "open in new tab/new window". You will notice that the image is now displayed in a layout. So that same URL is used for displaying the image in the Lightbox and on its own page.
The way StarNow have done this is using some crazy long JavaScript functionality, which I'm not too keen on replicating.
The html link should point to the layout showing the image on a new page by default, e.g.:
<a href="mysite/images/show/123" rel="gallery">
Before the lightbox opens, append a query string to the url in order to distinguish it from the normal link and load the layout for the lightbox. As soon as the image is loaded in the lightbox, change the link back to its original state.
$("a[rel=gallery]").fancybox({
'onStart': function (selectedArray, selectedIndex, selectedOpts) {
var el = $(selectedArray[selectedIndex]);
el.attr('href', el.attr('href') + '?mode=lightbox');
},
'onComplete': function (currentArray, currentIndex, currentOpts) {
var el = $(currentArray[currentIndex]);
el.attr('href', el.attr('href').split("?")[0]);
}
});
You will then have to process the following link in order to return the lightbox layout:
<a href="mysite/images/show/123?mode=lightbox" rel="gallery">
You should be able to modify the JavaScript function that generates the HTML with the <img /> tag to link the image to such a page. Although, if you are trying to make it so that selecting "Open image in new tab" opens a page like this, then that might be impossible (unless there is some sort of crazy cookie/session implementation to alternate between the image script just passing an image and generating a page, which I think could be possible). To assign a new href for the link to have when you click "Open link in new tab" should be quite possible by just modifying the JavaScript function.
Could you clarify what exactly you are attempting to do? Open link in new tab or open image in new tab?
Edit: It appears that the FancyBox script is changing the href of your link to point directly to the image. You would need to find where in the script it is selecting each link tag with rel="gallery" and replacing the href to point to the images; you will want it to not change the href if you want it left as "mysite/photos/view/abc123", for example.
If you need the same functionality the demo site you posted is using, then this is easy to achieve, but keep in mind that the site is NOT using the same URL for both the pop-up and the standalone image page.
Click on any thumbnail with Firebug console is open, you'll notice that it's making an Ajax request to get the image from a different URL! which is an obvious behavior.
http://www.starnow.co.uk/profile/PhotosTrackView.aspx?photo_id=2129864
While the link is pointing to:
http://www.starnow.co.uk/KimberleyMarren/photos/2129864/
you see your links should point to the correct image page, in case of JS disabled browsing or right clicking (as you mentioned) AND using JS to override the link default behavior (which is redirecting you to the image page).
So for example you can have a method that will generate your image layout/page, and this should be used as href; and override the click event of the link to call a similar method (using ajax) but this time it'll retrieve the image itself to use it in your lightbox.

Resizing iframe height using javascript issue

I have an iframe which content is a php-file, and that php-file displays some mysql records.
The more records, the larger the iframe height should get, otherwise it wont show all of the information in the iframe.
Here is a code I have for dynamically setting the iframe height, from the iframes content (the php file):
var x = document.body.scrollHeight;
x = x + 20 + 'px';
window.parent.document.getElementById("iframe001").style.height=x;
iframe001 is the iframe I am referring to above.
I am adding 20px of height extra because of borders etc...
Now, sometimes this resizing works, sometimes it doesn't.
Does anybody know why it works sometimes. If I alert the 'x' variable, it shows different values sometimes, but most times it works.
Any other ways you know of setting the iframes height from the content of the iframe?
Thanks
do you run this piece of javascript in any kind of onload-event? if not, maybe the scrollHeight isn't kown when the script is executed.
just taking a shot; maybe you're experiencing casting errors? might be safer to do;
var x = document.body.scrollHeight+20;
x = x + 'px';
window.parent.document.getElementById("iframe001").style.height=x;
if that doesn't help; what does the x-variable look like when resizing is not working?

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