Question

I have a jQuery fancybox that takes the content from an iframe, here’s the link to popup the box:

<a class="action_btn recommend_btn" act="recommend" href="recommend.php">Recommend</a>

and here’s the code for the fancybox:

$(".action_btn").not(".save").click(function() {
    $.fancybox({
        'width' : 560,
        'height' : 530,
        'autoScale' : false,
        'transitionIn' : 'none',
        'transitionOut' : 'none',
        'type' : 'iframe',
        'href' : $(this).attr('href')
    });

    return false;
});

now I would like to post something to this recommend.php, so I can use this attribute/value in recommend.php, how can I do this?

One way I can think of is to store a session in the page prior to hyperlinking, but doesn’t seem right.. seems like there should be a better way to do this

Answer 1

You should still be able to use the _GET http variable I think so:

<a href="recommend.php?some_variable=value">Click</a>

Then in recommend.php use $_GET['some_variable']. Unless fancybox does something crazy with iFrames.