Question

I have an iframe that loads a remote page (not hosted on the same domain). I would like to edit the contents of the page, but of course, this is not possible, since I don’t have permissions.

So, I was wondering, if I have FTP access to the site, would there be a work around to the problem? With FTP, I could copy the files of the site over to my domain, and edit them via an iframe. But I was wondering if there is an alternate method.

Answer 1

Actually, yes. If you had FTP access to the site you could do it in theory.

Basically, something like:

// I used jQuery to speed up writing ajax code, really it could be anything else
jQuery.get('?refresh',function(){ // this function is called when the request finishes
    // force the iframe to do a complete refresh (hence the random token)
    jQuery('#iframe').attr('src','http://targetsite.com/somefile.php?r='+Math.random());
});

And:

// if the variable in question was set...
if(isset($_REQUEST['refresh'])){
    // the following requires "allow_url_fopen" config to be on
    // otherwise, you could use any other PHP FTP library
    file_put_contents('ftp://username:[e-mail]/somefile.php','Hello');
}