Dynamic Hyperlinking

[lancecb]

Hey All,
My situation is complex for me, so I will do my best to explain it to get your help. Here gos!
I am building my site and it is coming along just fine. However, I have come to a point that I really need an advanced piece of code to control three pages. The scenario works like this:
Page 1 has a table with a list of names and their associated information(email address, phone#, cell#). The name field is a hyperlink that will take the visitor to Page 2. Page 2 will contain additional information specifically about the name that was selected from Page 1. Page 2 will have 6 hyperlinks that need to dynamically load information about the name from Page 1. This information need to load in a frame on Page 2. Finally the visitor will select the video link, on Page 2, that will open Page 3. Page 3 contains a video player that will play the programmed video.
My situation is this; I would like to create this without having to create 2 new pages for each name in the table. I would like to dynamically update Pages 2 & 3 from a data sheet created for each name in the table.
I appreciate your help with this.

You can see an example of this at the following link:

http://www.ehsn.net/football.aspx

[D'son]

Re: Dynamic Hyperlinking

I looked at the site you listed and I created a sample that you can do without any fancy scripts. It uses an I-frame to disply the personal info, academic stats, etc. This is how it appears to me that they did it. Here is the sample I only linked the first two buttons just so you can see.

[lancecb]

Re: Dynamic Hyperlinking

Ed,
Kudos for your response. When I add another entry to the table, is the data page dynamically updated to include the specific information for the new entry or do I have to recreate the code for the new entry?
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Lance

[D'son]

Re: Dynamic Hyperlinking

I didn't use coding to create this, it is a series of seperate pages linked together (took about 10 minutes) First page is simply the names with a link (view profile) to the second page which has the player photo (each player will have their own) the menu bar and an I-Frame. The buttons are linked to seperate pages containing just the info and the target is the I-Frame (which I called if1). You can see the individual pages:

http://www.marseillesyouthsports.com/sample11.html

http://www.marseillesyouthsports.com/sample12.html

http://www.marseillesyouthsports.com/personalinfo.html

http://www.marseillesyouthsports.com/academicinfo.html

To add additional buttons follow the format, and the same with additonal pages. Its just basic linking.

[lancecb]

Re: Dynamic Hyperlinking

Ed,
Thanks! I will move forward with your method. This will allow me to continue to develop the site and get it posted. In the future I would like to make it a little more maintenance friendly by eliminating the need to create a new page for each athlete. (i.e., fill in one form and the code will take the form entries and create the individual entries for each athlete) Thanks again, you were a great help.
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Lance

[D'son]

Re: Dynamic Hyperlinking

You could get hold of Navaldesign, he could probably help you with something like that.

[lancecb]

Re: Dynamic Hyperlinking

Ed,
Do these links work when previewing the site from my hard drive?
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Lance

[D'son]

Re: Dynamic Hyperlinking

No links will only work to published pages, meaning if you are linking from one page you created that has not been published yet it will not work. If you link to a page that had been published then it will.

[lancecb]

Re: Dynamic Hyperlinking

The site will be ready to go live in about a day or two. I have .flv files that will be streamed to the user (lots of them). How have you found Vodahost to be with regards to band width? Any feedback will be great.
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Lance

[davidundalicia]

Re: Dynamic Hyperlinking

If you have LOTS of streamed videos, I would advise you to read Vodahost TOS re streaming and bandwith................