Yii App in iframe

Yii 1.1 General Discussion
1

Hi,

I’m creating a Facebook application using Yii, and wondering how to have links within the app redirect the application host page as though it were the application?

E.g. When clicking a link in the app:

Instead of the iframe going to:

applicationDomain.com/controller/action

Have the browser go to:

apps.facebook.com/{appNamespace}/controller/action

I can get the browser to follow the link by using [target=’_top’] in the links, but that just sends the browser to the Yii application domain (away from the Facebook application), instead of appending the relative path to the url.

Any ideas?

2

hmm, would be nice to know how to do it. Have you found any solution to it?

3

I got it working by adding ‘baseUrl’ to the urlManager component declaration in config/main.php:


'urlManager'=>array(

    'baseUrl'=>'http:/apps.facebook.com/{appNamespace}',

    'urlFormat'=>'path', //optional

    'showScriptName' => false, //optional

    'rules'=>array(

	//.....your rules

    ),

),

You’ll still need to add ‘target="_top"’ to your links:


CHtml::link('text',array('controller/action'), array('target'=>'_top'));
4

just found this. I think it could be useful in your case as well. So you wouldn’t need to change the baseUrl in the config file.


Yii::app()->request->baseUrl;