Issue:
(Was frames, now custom style mod. See update below)
Getting UBB to display output in a specific frame of a frameset, with multiple framesets.
I would like to retain the use of frames for a portion of my website, with the UBB displayed in the main frame. However, each forum needs to display in a different frameset, as there are different header and sidebar frames for different forums. I want to keep the separate html files for the frames so that users can modify their own forum frame's content without having access to the CP (with a simple CGI html editor).
If you could set a style so that the requested UBB link became the SRC value of a frameset template, that would solve the problem. Instead of using the header and footer html to wrap the UBB output, you would tell UBB to use a specific frameset page, and put the summary or thread in the "main" frame.
That way, if a user clicks a link to the latest topic from my home page (using Latest Threads), UBB would look at the style for that forum, and sent them to the correct frameset. If a user is looking at a thread in a particular framed forum and clicks a link for a forum with a different frameset, UBB would send them the new frameset for that forum.
Example:
Forum A uses framesetA with headerA.htm and sidebarA.htm.
Forum B uses framesetB with headerB.htm and sidebarB.htm.
Both framesets use UBB output in the frame called "main".
User clicks LT link for forum A on homepage, and gets framesetA.
User in framesetA clicks link for forum B, and gets framesetB (instead of forumB in framesetA)
The frameset would look something like this:
[code][/code]You'd have to have an "if" statement to tell UBB to use target=main within one forum or target=_top if another forum is requested. I'm sure there may be other target conflicts to consider, but I can only think of a few...
Links out of the UBB, but in my domain would be target=_top.
Links out of my domain would be target=_blank
This mod would allow you to use regular styles for some forums, and frames for others. Currently, if you have one forum in a frame and click a link to a non-framed forum, you get the whole page layout within one frame.
Has anybody tried this and/or how hard would it be to mod the style setup to accomplish this?
Thanks,
Getagrip Greg
