"Wrapper" (iFrame) Overlay

Angeli Axel -- on Dec. 2 2007

This is a simple overlay that takes a single URL and displays it within an iFrame.

Putting an URL into an iFrame is one of the killer features of Joomla. It allows the display of portlets within the portal frames, like it were an article.

This overlay does the same as the "Joomla Wrapper".

This is a first version. It needs some amelioration with respect to the sizing of the iFrame, especially the dynamic sizing of the frameHeight. Watch out for variables frameHeight and framewidth in the cod of the wrapper.php.

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Wrapper Overlay May2008 3,456 bytes, 162 downloads
I made some corrections to allow a better dynamic sizing.
Edited by Oxalagu on May 8
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Moi-meme

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on May 7

It's a fine overlay. Many people will use it, certainly.

Can we expect some screenshot, or more documentation about how it work ? Because "This overlay does the same as the "Joomla Wrapper"." is not very YACs compliant... ,)

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Oxalagu

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on May 8

Hi,

documentation would be an ambitious word for this tiny application.

Let me try to do some small tutorial for Overlays in general.

In fact the WRAPPER is the most simple use of the overlay and it does basically what "HelloWorld" would do. Instead of Writing HelloWorld it writes now into the overlay (in function get_text)

In function get_fields($host)

I added some fields, that will be schown in the page creation dialog and ask for the "wrapperurl"



// the external URL to put into the frame

$label = i18n::s('Wrapper URL');

$input = '';

$hint = i18n::s('The external page to be inframed');

$fields[] = array($label, $input, $hint);

please mind, that the data entered here needs to be parsed in :

function parse_fields($fields

Moi-meme

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on May 8