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Hi,

Here’s an interesting one, that I can;t figure out at the moment,

If I have an index template (Homepage) that changes it’s content using iframes, how do I get the {segment_1} of the parent of the iFrame?

UKFreelancer.

Not sure exactly what you mean but a long time ago I needed to integrate EE with 3rd party affiliate content pagess using a iframe. The only way I could manipulate iframe content was to wrap it in a channel entries tag, the update the iframe src by using a custom entry field which contained the actual iframe URL:

{exp:channel:entries channel="something"}
<iframe src="{channel_custom_url_field}"></iframe>
{/exp:channel:entries}

In short, you can’t. The page loading into the iframe is a separate page, and when the server parses that page it has no notion of even being in an iframe.

What you could do is pass {segment_1} as a new segment to the src url that you load in the iframe. seomething like:

<iframe src="/template_group/template/{segment_1}"></iframe>

That would make segment_1 in the “outer frame”, segment_3 in the iframe.

But… Don’t use iframes. 😉

Thanks for advice,

All sorted now and the solution is using iframes. Quite impressed with it actually, but being an Extranet, the outside world won’t see it :-(

UKFreelancer.