Passing variables to pages

[Saville Kaufman]

I have a PHP page inside an iFrame on a page I have created on my network. I would like to pass information from the member profile (unique ID and name) to my page. Any ideas how I can do this?

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Saville,

I think you'll need some javascript in your page that constructs the iFrame for you, and builds the scr attribute based on the ning.CurrentProfile.fullname variables etc.

[Saville Kaufman]

Thanks Phil. Can you give me an example of the Javascript I would need to, let's say, display the users fullname. Once I have this I think I can go from there.

[Phil McCluskey]

Hi Saville,

If you view source on a page when you're signed in, you'll see we create a javascript object called ning.CurrentProfile that has a few different variables in it. ning.CurrentProfile.fullName will give you the name of the currently signed in user. If it's null, then that's a signed out pageview, and you should not generate your iFrame or do something else.

Thanks,
Phil

[Saville Kaufman]

Thanks Phil. I will take a look and see if I can get this sorted.

[Phil McCluskey]

Here's a very simple example:

<script type="text/javascript">

alert(ning.CurrentProfile.fullName);

alert(ning.CurrentProfile.photoUrl);

</script>