Help with PHP

[Cierra]

I have my site and I am trying to make it so that when I click a link it will show up where the updates page is.

http://www.marcy-rylan.net/index.php

take clicking the link Marcy for instance, but instead of just showing up where the updates are it opens in a while new page.


help??

[kaykays]

If you want the page to open in the same window,
you should remove the target attribute from the link, e.g.

change

<a href="marcy.php" target="index">MARCY</a>

to

<a href="marcy.php" >MARCY</a>

[Cierra]

I've tried that and it doesn't seem to work when I do that either

[Cierra]

I did it the way you said, take a look and see if there are any other suggestions?? thanks a lot for your help!

[kaykays]

Can you explain your problem a little more?

What is the updates page?

BTW, the picture at the top of your page is very heavy, nearly 0.5 MB. You may consider reducing its size.

[garysims]

I've been following this thread also and I agree with kaykays could we have some more information.

When I click on the MARCY links I get a page with a menu on the left:

Biography
Resume
Quick
Quotes
Interviews
Marcy's Style
Name Meaning

And Nothing else... But the link works as the marcy.php is being run. Is the problem the link or the marcy.php file?

Thanks,

Gary

[Cierra]

No, the problem is basically when you click on any of the links, other than the gallery, they all work but i want them to show up where my cutenews is. not into another new page that has on the the links.

if you go to http://www.marcy-rylan.net/index.html and click on one you'll see what i mean. but with that i had to insert the header and thing on each page. i wanted to get where i don't have to.

like if you go to k-cavalliari.com, her pages load where her updates are. do you get what i mean? lol i'm not good at explaining this stuff

[garysims]

OK, I think I understand... The simplest way to do this is to have the left column in a separate php file called some thing like left.php, I would suggest you have the header in another file header.php.

Then each page is formatted by including header.php and then left.php and then finally the content.

[code]
<?
include("header.php");
include("left.php");

/* Content goes here */

include("footer.php");
?>

This way the left will always look the same and if you change the left.php it will change in all the pages.

Does that help?

Gary

[Cierra]

i have no idea how to do that lol but i believe i can figure out! thanks a bunch!

[garysims]

Would you like me to email you a simple example... If so please send me a PM with your email address and I will put together a simple page based on some of the stuff from your site.

Thanks,

Gary