Call external HTML page

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1

Hello, i have seen somewhere how to load an external html page into playcanvas, but i can’t find it anymore…anyone can help?

2

Found this,

window.open(“http://www.example.com/page.html”);

but it open a new page in the browser, i wanted to make the page open as an entity

3

What do you mean by open as an Entity?

You can create HTML assets and display attach them to the page.

http://developer.playcanvas.com/en/user-manual/assets/html/

4

yes, i know i can create html assets, but if i want call a page that is on an external site?

5

Can you use an iframe in your HTML asset to load an external page?

6

uhm… i guess it could work…let me give it a try

7

Yes iframe works fine … tnx a lot!
https://playcanvas.com/editor/scene/391918
can i exchange data with a php page?

8

That is really weird that you iframe whole page inside of playcanvas app, can’t see real reason for doing so.
Yes you can: use AJAX.

9

yes max is weird, but it was just a test, also if i have to say that the site is lot more fast inside playcanvas.
I wanted to use some page or just frames or tables if needed.

10

Not getting AJAX to work. I use this script-structure within my playcanvas-JS:

  • converted to:
autoGenTextSquares.prototype.doautoGenTextSquares = function (screenPosition) {

    var from = this.cameraEntity.getPosition ();

    var to = this.cameraEntity.camera.screenToWorld(screenPosition.x, screenPosition.y, this.cameraEntity.camera.farClip);



    var result = this.app.systems.rigidbody.raycastFirst(from, to);

    if (result) {
        var hitEntity = result.entity; this.firstPosition =hitEntity.getLocalPosition();
        if (hitEntity.name === 'Start_RecDial1'){  
                                          $.ajax({
      type: "GET",
      url: " ... (meta-cloaked) ... /insertChk.php"
    }).done(function( data) {
                                              console.log("req done");
      alert( "Request is done" );
    }); 
                                            }         
});

And within my exported index.html I write the AJAX reference:

.....
<body>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

    <script src="__start__.js"></script>
    <script src="__loading__.js"></script>
		
</body>
</html>

The page reacts with console and alert, but it doesn’t write to my DB (insertChk.php that already works seprately)

I did find a solution.