<table> not displaying because of <iframe>

crmpicco · October 6th, 2007, 07:37 AM

I have the following code in one of my pages, I have used the footer.php code in many other of my scripts and it works fine. However, this script is the only one that uses an IFRAME. Is there a reason the "footer.php" script is not being shown?

Code:

<?php 
include($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/mini/inc/dbconn.php");
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>AyrshireMinis.com - crmpicco</TITLE>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="js/general.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/mini/inc/style.css" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<?php 
include($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/mini/inc/general.php");
include($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/mini/inc/header.php");
?>

<table class="main_table" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>
          <table class="sec_table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
            <tbody>
              <tr>
                <td valign="top" height="1300">
                    <iframe frameborder="0" border="0" width="100%" height="100%" src="/mini/phpbb2/index.php" scrolling="no">
                </td>
              </tr>
            </tbody>
          </table>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
<table align="center">
    <tr>
      <td width="100%" height="20">
      <center>
        <?php include($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/mini/inc/footer.php"); ?>
      </center>
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Cheers, Picco

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dparsons · October 6th, 2007, 08:15 AM

I am not a PHP guy but there is no reason, as far as the HTML is concerned, that your IFRAME is not showing.

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crmpicco · October 6th, 2007, 10:43 AM

it's quite basic, that's what I was unsure why it wasn't showing? I'll try just changing it to a basic table and not a PHP include and see if that helps any.

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dparsons · October 6th, 2007, 12:21 PM

Well are you sure the IFRAME does not appear? Have you set the Frameborder property to see if its rendered to your page? What potentially could be happening is that your iframe is rendering but the iframe src could be the page that doesnt render. Not sure of your specific secnario but it might be worth a shot.

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Imar · October 6th, 2007, 12:42 PM

I think he said the iframe appears fine, but the footer doesn't.....

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dparsons · October 6th, 2007, 12:44 PM

Ahhh, thanks Imar I mis-read his post. In any event I have used the same functionality for one of my asp.net scripts and it works fine since the IFRAME itself makes another request to the server and thus processes my script. Don't sounds kinda strange to me.

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crmpicco · October 6th, 2007, 01:02 PM

Hi guys, yeah the footer doesn't appear the IFRAME is fine. It shows fine, but I can't seem to write anything below that point in the code. Tried this without anything shown:

Code:

<?php 
include($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/mini/inc/dbconn.php");
?>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>AyrshireMinis.com - crmpicco</TITLE>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript" src="js/general.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/mini/inc/style.css" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
</HEAD>
<BODY>

<?php 
include($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/mini/inc/general.php");
include($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/mini/inc/header.php");
?>

<table class="main_table" border="0" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="5">
  <tbody>
    <tr>
      <td>
          <table class="sec_table" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
            <tbody>
              <tr>
                <td valign="top" height="1300">
                    <iframe frameborder="0" border="0" width="100%" height="100%" src="/mini/phpbb2/index.php" scrolling="no">
                </td>
              </tr>
            </tbody>
          </table>
      </td>
    </tr>
  </tbody>
</table>
<table><tr><td><h2>TEST!!!!!!!</h2></td></tr></table>
<table align="center">
    <tr>
      <td width="100%" height="20">
      <center>
        <?php include($_SERVER["DOCUMENT_ROOT"] . "/mini/inc/footer.php"); ?>
      </center>
      </td>
    </tr>
</table>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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Imar · October 6th, 2007, 02:04 PM

And did you try it without the iframe to see if the footer is the problem or the iframe?

It looks like your disability to do some self investigation and debugging that got you famous here a few years ago hasn't really improved.... ;)

You need to do some HTML debugging to find out the problem. If I were you, I'd start from scratch. Add a few tags, see if it works. Then add the footer and see if that still works. Then add the iframe and find out things break. This gives you a clue that it has something to do with the iframe.
Then step back, look at the HTML tag for the iframe and think a little about how HTML works. You know, with elements that consist of opening and closing tags and such. Then look at the iframe tag again and notice you have a problem.
Then you probably try to add /> only to find out that that doesn't work either (don't know why, BTW). And then finally, you come to the only conclusion possible which leads to solving this problem.

Try the method I described above. If it still doesn't work, let me know and I'll tell you how to fix it.

Imar

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crmpicco · October 6th, 2007, 02:19 PM

I tried taking the <IFRAME> out before and the footer displayed fine. But that doesn't really help me. The IFRAME is going to PHPBB2's index file, which is the forum homepage. The code is too much to post here.

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Imar · October 6th, 2007, 02:22 PM

The code in the file referenced by the iframe isn't the problem at all.
It's the iframe element (or rather, the iframe tag) that's the problem here. Did you look at it? Do you see anything odd?

Imar

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