i have installed a php script and now I want it to display in an
Iframe, or any other method of showing php on an html platform. The
problem is it either says it cannot find the file, or shows a blank page in the
iframe (plain white box).. How would I go about doing this!?

i've tried this

<iframe

<?php virtual("/home/mysite/public_html/comments/comments.php "); ?>

width="800px">
</iframe>


Thanks

Did you try

<iframe src="comments/comments.php" width="800px"></iframe>

Perhaps putting the URL, if needed?

I can't put it the url because it would cause all the comments to be the same apparently. That didn't work unfortunately. This is frustration because i can hit www.mysite.com/comments/comments.php in the browser and see the script working but i cannot
get it to show on the pages I need it in...

Originally Posted by highanddry

I can't put it the url because it would cause all the comments to be the same apparently.

What? Can you point to a "comment"? What exactly do you think is "the same"? We were talking about a frame and a file.

Totally lost me, dude.

the installation guide that came with the script warns not to direct the
script using www.mysite.com/comments/coments.php as all of those comments
would be the "same" as every other page i place them on.

The file is a comments script (comments.php) to allow people to leave comments on a given page. Im simply trying to make this open in an iframe but i've tried several times and the best I can get is a blank iframe. I am thinking it is because I'm not writting the iframe correctly to read the php script within...

Well, it sounds like the script wasn't intended to be used via an iframe. I'm thinking (and this is w/o having the script), that the script is designed to save comments in a file by accessing the URL that the user is visiting through. When you put the script in an iframe you then have it on it's own URL causing all the comments to appear shared (as opposed to the same). If you want to include it on the page, then you'd need to just include it directly.

Why an iframe? Frames aren't all they're made out to be. You could surround the comments in a DIV and then put them wherever on the page you want them to be.

For example, what's so wrong with:

<div id="comments">
<?php include("comments/comments.php");?>
</div>

to tell you the truth I thought an IFRAME was the ONLY way to put php into a non php based site. Since I wrote in (x)html and know little about php as of yet, I worked through that assumption. So you are saying I can simply put it in my html page like that?
Thanks for your help that comes so quick. I will shoot you some talkupation if you want when I get out of this **** cubicle.

Yep, you can put it directly in your page, just like that. I'm glad that I asked!

And, TK is always appreciated.

Have an awesome day!

Well even that didn't work. I ended up abandoning that script and installing a better one. The only way I could get the new script (which is called "comment script" by gentlesource) to work was through SSI. Which, eventually, worked brilliantly

It sounds like the extension of your file was .html and not .php . PHP will only work if the extension has been setup to use the PHP parser which is usually the extensions .php, .php3, .php4, .php5 (and I think a few others, but I always just use .php).

Anyway, glad you got one working!

ya I mentioned something about that initially

"in an
Iframe, or any other method of showing php on an html platform."

Oh well. Next time I'll know.

oic. You can add a handler to your htaccess file to have html pages parsed by the PHP engine, but it's generally not worth the effort (not that it's hard, but how hard is saving your files as php either?).

Take care.