I am trying to make a page that will hold my forum. I made a page with a auto resizing iFrame that contains my forum. It works perfectly in FireFox. It will also load perfectly in IE, but once you click on anything in the parent page, IE does nothing, it just seems to be continuously loading. You have to restart IE, because nothing will work after. I would appreciate any help that you could provide.

Code in head
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function resize_iframe()
{

var height=window.innerWidth;//Firefox
if (document.body.clientHeight)
{
height=document.body.clientHeight;//IE
}
document.getElementById("forum").style.height=pars eInt(height-
document.getElementById("forum").offsetTop-8)+"px";
}
window.onresize=resize_iframe;
//-->
</script>
<script language="JavaScript">
<!--
function calcHeight()
{
//find the height of the internal page
var the_height=
document.getElementById('forum').contentWindow.doc ument.body.scrollHeight;

//change the height of the iframe
document.getElementById('forum').height=the_height ;
}
//-->
</script>
iFrame

<iframe width="995" id="forum"
onLoad="calcHeight();"
src="/forum/index.php"
scrolling="NO"
frameborder="0"
height="1">
An iframe capable browser is
required to view this web site.
</iframe>
If you want to try the page, go here

Thanks

I'm surprised it works at all

var height=window.innerWidth; ??

why are you surprised, I am just starting to learn javascript

BTW

onresize doesn't work properly in IE because it triggers when the body resizes as well

on the only occasion i needed to use a resize this worked for me ->
http://snook.ca/archives/javascript/ie6_fires_onresize/

height = innerWidth ??

even a non-programmer should spot something wrong there

So how would you handle my predicament? I want to have my forum load with the same header as the website, so that it looks like the forum is actually a part of the site and not just a popup or new window.

Nice link BTW, I am sure that it will come in handy at some point, I need all the help that I can get.

Well first off if I was going to use iframes, which I wouldn't at all, ever, I would at least start off with height = innerHeight

Is there a problem with setting the phpBB template to use the same header as your site does?
From past experience with the forum it's not overly complex to edit the templates.

I had a look at adding my header content to the phpbb template files, and I found it to be quite overwhelming, I am not a programmer. I tried to find tutorials on the subject and was unable to find anything that was detailed enough so as to enable me to proceed in that manner. I understand that modifying the template files is the preferred method for interface customization of a phpbb forum.

why would you not use iFrames?

because they are crap for users and pretty poor for search engines.

Have you worked your way through -> http://www.php-editors.com/chapters/phpbb1.php ?

Thanks I'll look now

does this also apply to phpbb3?

No idea but the templating system hasn't changed much over the various upgrades.