link that opens document in same window

[marsshutters]

Hi,

I need a script that will do the following:

I have a whole bunch of links running vertically on the left side of the page. When one of these links is clicked, related information should appear to the right of the page.

Kind of like on this page:
http://www1.ca.dell.com/content/topics/topic.aspx/ca/segments/dhs/en/dfs/dfs_payment_option_summary?c=ca&cs=cadhs1&l=en&s=dhs

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks!
Irina

[boogyman]

thats uses a server side script called asp (active server page), but your server would need to support that language.

if your server supports that its a matter of retrieving values out of the url and populating them. and you could do that with php or asp

if not you would need to do somethign on the client-side
--you could use frame's / iframe where all of your links populate a certain frame
--you could see if you could get someone to write you an AJAX based script
--you could just populate each page with the links that you need them to see, via menu lists, or dropdown, hard coding

[djr33]

There are also a number of scripts that do something like that available in the DD library. Take a look.

The best idea probably is using frames, since that seems like it would fit your layout.

[mburt]

Googled, and thought this might be of some use (PHP's method to manage pages with the $_GET variable):
http://www.nic.fi/~tapio1/Nt/PHPEn4.php3

[marsshutters]

I checked out iFrames and it looks like it may do what I need!!

Thank you everybody!

Irina