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Hello Everyone,

I'm new in web development. I just try to load a url into a new linked page from my menu.

I have create a new page. I try to load for example a (http://localhost/phpmyadmin ) into a content space in the new page.

Please, someone Could help me ?.

thanks in advance.
 
Mainio replied on at Permalink Reply
Mainio
If you want to embed the content of the site to your site, probably the only proper solution would be to use iframe tag there:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_iframe.asp...

However, using that kind of embedding should ONLY be used when it's REALLY THE LAST CHOISE.

E.g. in embedding the phpmyadmin there are a LOT of internal links etc. because of which this is quite the only option to embed that. But then the question comes to: why would you want to embed phpmyadmin to some other page in the first place? (or did you just use it as an example).

Also, you can load external URL's from PHP just like you use wget-command in linux:
$externalContent = file_get_contents("http://www.externalurl.com");
// TODO: Do what you want with external content


However, this method should only be used e.g. when integrating to other sites and that external url would provide e.g. a JSON full of information that you'd need.

By no doubt, the latter method really adds load to your server and also slows down the loading of the pages.

Hope this helps. If you're new with web dev, just look for guides/information and read about things before doing anything. That can save you a lot of trouble. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about looking back at my very first PHP projects. :)


Br,
Antti
ricaportela replied on at Permalink Reply
thanks for reply.

I would like create a inter site just for my use only. I have a little difficulty to memorize the links that I use during development so I would like to create a simple page with several links that need throughout the hole web development process, instead of creating links in favorite Internet browser.

So, this will be the one of the reasons that why I would like to link to the phpmyadmin page's. I could open in a new page, no problem.
But my intention was also to learn a little more about Concrete5 and their functions, as well opening an external link within in the main page of the site.

But your reply works fine. I'll try to learn more before ask something so quite simple.

Regards.