I was wondering what is the best way to have a web page inside another page in code igniter. From the old code i'm redesigning they use iframes. Is this the best way to do it? I want to click on a button on the existing webpage, after it will do some query's and update a corresponding iframe below.
Thanks,
Tariq
This is ok to do in code igniter or any other web framework for that matter. This is more of an html question than it is a backend question. Happy Coding!
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I have music application in which I have simple player in footer. User can choose songs from main page list and play it in footer. Now requirement is even if user moves fro home page to other pages(profile, bookmarks) in application the footer player should not get reloaded and should keep playing audio selected on home page initially.
How do I do that? DO I need to load pages through ajax?
Edit:
I forgot to mention that development is 80% completed and footer reloads on every page load. How much of rework is needed if I have to use Ajax now?
Use PJAX. Reload just the parts of the page that you want: https://github.com/rails/pjax_rails
It's already integrated with Rails and everything you put outside of this block will not be reloaded:
<div data-pjax-container>
<!-- PJAX updates will go here -->
</div>
Here's another solution similar to PJAX and Turbolinks
https://github.com/igor-alexandrov/wiselinks
Some very good answers already, but i just wanted to explain your problem better.
HTTP requests is "stateless", which means that each request are fully independent and their is no way you can know anything about how the page was before you requested a new page. This makes it impossible not to reload the footer on each request, using only HTTP.
You can use cookies to keep information between request, so you could start the player where it stopped before the request, but it will still reload (and stop for a short duration).
You can also have the rest of the page in a iframe, and only change the content of the iframe.
However these solutions is not very good for various reasons, so i would strongly recommend the last and best solution: ajax.
The simples solution is properly pjax as #aledalgrande suggested (or wiselink as suggested by #adbeel). This will i practice make your site a "one-site-application" where you use ajax to replace specific parts of the page instead of the whole page. It should however be fairly simple to integrate, even in a existing rails application.
Since you put jQuery as a tag I suggest you either look at http://api.jquery.com/load/.
You can using plain old HTML and making it easier & faster to deploy since the app is almost 'done'. Later you should implement a better (ajax) option.
Simplified: index.html
<iframe id="mainframe" src="other.html"></iframe>
<footer>
Don't reload me pls :D
</footer>
on page navigation (links) you act only on the mainframe, leaving the footer not reloaded.
NOTE: This is ugly and may will give you problems but might serve you to do minimal modification and having your site live asap.
Then rewriting the whole thing to using ajax could be 'some work required' to 'heavy work required' depending on how the app is already implemented. note that will never be 'few or no work required'.
I'm working on a website that uses html5's push- and popstate in combination with ajax-calls to create a website that dynamically loads in Wordpress posts and pages, without causing a page refresh.
I've got that working fine, but I would love it if the black Wordpress toolbar/adminbar that shows at the top of the site when you're logged in as an admin, also reflected the change of content. Is there any way at all to make this happen? So that when I go from a post to page, for example, the "edit" link in the admin bar updates.
I don't think it's as easy as I hope it is, and if it can't be worked out I think I'll just disable the adminbar on the front-end. But it could be that I'm missing something.
Thanks in advance!
I'm working on this myself. I'm gonna build an ajax action and jquery function to do this. I will post here when it's done. For NOW i've instructed my users to just refresh to get the edit link. if you're using HTML5 history then you're on the permalink you want anyways. refresh and let the server regenerate the bar. not perfect but not terrible.
another option is to put edit post links in your template.
I have a requirement of having the same URL throughout the application navigations. Like below
http://www.[Site Name]:com. (Here User should not have the idea of chaning the URL from one page to another page)
I am using ASP.NET MVC3 with latest Razor View Engine,
Can some body give suggestions on this?
Advanced Thanks,
Satish Kotha
This may make it very difficult for users to access your site - they won't be able to bookmark a specific page, for example.
It sounds like you want a single-page-app (e.g. like Google Mail or Reader). In this case, you have one page and make heavy use of AJAX. You can query the server via javascript, and send back Partial Views, or raw data in JSON format which can be rendered on the client, possibly via some kind of templating engine.
As Graham Clark has already mentioned, this functionality will most likely be frustrating for the user; however, achieving it depends on the complexity of your project. You may want to look into using jquery to load partial views into the main content area of your site.
When you click on your navigation you can use jquery's load() to replace the main content on the page. Jquery-load-with-mvc-2-partialviews is an interesting blog post that may give you more insight into what you would want to do. Your code to load content could look something like this:
$("#mainContent").load("/Controller/Action",
{parameter}, function () {
// perform javascript actions on load complete
});
I am working on classified ads project in asp.net mvc3. I am facing problem in filter search page I want to change the URL without loading the whole page like Facebook or Linkedin before change:
http://localhost:4847/Category/Clothing/
after change when user remove category:
http://localhost:4847/Category/
And when user select category it should be change to append category as I show on top.
I am using ajax for filter search
You can make use of the Html5 History API
Anyway this is an Html5 feature and not all browsers may support it. In this case I would suggest directly using a plugin that degrades to hash changes if not supported, like History.js
This is fundamentally the same question as how to fix the browser history back-forward buttons. Checkout What is the best back button jQuery plugin?, it really could help you alot!
Hi Masters Of Web Development.
I have a not that simple question this time. I have got a simple external HTML page, that I want to include in my site. The HTML page contains a submit form or something like that, and I wish to send this data from the form, without to reload the whole page. So I decided to put HTML page inside iframe. But, some people said that this is older technology, google doesn't like iframes, etc. So I want to use something like AJAX or JQuery to load that external HTML page, and to send submit form without reloading the whole page with it. :)
Any suggestions on how to make this?
Thanks in advance :)
Do you really need Google to index that iframe form? If that's the only iframe you have throughout the site, it aint going to be a problem in terms of google indexing.
About using the Iframe, if you are not comfortable learning and building ajax-type form, you'll still be fine (like what Frankie commented). Just make sure the form works, usable and compatible with popular browsers.
You want to use the jQuery Forms Plugin. Its very straightforward and easy to turn any normal HTML form into an AJAX form.