Codezwiz >> Forums >> Javascript Help >> Help with javascript error... null or not an object

If I go to this link directly the page loads with out errors (http://cbs.sportsline.com/mlb/box-scoreboards). However when I try to load it in an IFrame I get the following error:

Hi JR,

I could be wrong but what is happening is the page you are loading in the iframe is looking for an object that does not exisist on the page that loading it.

Even if you created a n object for it to find you still would recieve an error but the error would be "permission denied". Your browser will not let the script from one framed page access another for means of manipulation if the pages in the frames are on different sites.

I am not hip and up on the trend of all the new features to the newer Iesp2/3 browsers but in OLD days you can override this at user level by accepting the your site as a trusted site, this does you the webpage developer no good tho.

Thanks for the reply I appreciate it. I will have to look into a way around this. Maybe I could read the page with file_get_contents....

np but like I said I could be wrong and hopefully if I am someone will post with correction. I believe net scape is the only browser that will allow it but the script needs to be a signed script and that cost money lol

I was able to get around it by using file_get_contents and then str_replace to remove the code that was causing the error. Thanks for the explanation above, I really appreciate it.

Just for future readers, file_get_contents and str_replace are function that are used in Php scripting and altho you can jump in and out of the 2 while writing your scripts you will need to find out if the host you are using allows you to use php especially if you are using one of the free hosting sites.

What "exactly" did you change or delete? I see TONS of people using this script and they have ALL given up on trying to get rid of this error. MANY sites that still give the error. We'd all be indebted to you if you told us how to fix it. Thanks in advance.
Mike