Can't pass in frames?

Anon

I have a variable I pass as a rider to a URL that was working fine going page to page. But as soon as I hit a frame, the variable was lost. I thought maybe it was because the src in the frame tag was coded wrong. But it seems okay.

Can we not pass variables down into frames?

Example

frame page url = "index.phtml?uname=<?php print "$uname"; ?>"

inside the frameset
src = "header.phtml?uname=<?php print "$uname"; ?>"

but on the header the $uname comes back as unset.

Any help?

Anon

You'd prolly have to put up a url here so we could take a look or post some more code..

Above you are just justifying why you think its right 🙂 but dont show enough to figure out why its wrong. So if you toss up some more code or a url to where this travesty is ill see if i can give you a hand.

Anon

What the ..... see? This goes to show you should always proof read your comments. I lost a big chunk of code I thought I had pasted in there.... 🙂

The url is

"<a href="index.phtml?uname=<?php print "$uname"; ?>">"

index is a frameset page and uname is a username from login that has been verified.

Here is the index page (simplified for reading) :

"<frameset>"
"<frame src="header.phtml?uname=<?php print "$uname"; ?>">"
"<frame src="sidebar.phtml?uname=<?php print "$uname"; ?>">"
"<frame src="footer.phtml">"
"</frameset>"

On the header the page should say "Hello $uname" but it doesn't. It says "Hello "

Same thing for the sidebar.

lucidfx

Ok here you go.
http://www.cse.msu.edu/~doomryan/frame/index.php?uname=Icehawg

Maybe just your coding conventions? or possibly the misconfiguration of your web server for the .phtml files? but you said in early post it worked ok so here is some stuff and the source.

Hope all goes well.

Here is the index.php file
/**********************************/
<frameset cols="200," frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0">
<frame name="leftFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize src="sidebar.php?uname=<? echo $uname; ?>">
<frameset rows="100,607" frameborder="NO" border="0" framespacing="0" cols="">
<frame name="topFrame" scrolling="NO" noresize src="header.php?uname=<? echo $uname; ?>" >
<frame name="mainFrame" src="footer.php?uname=<?echo $uname;?>">
</frameset>
</frameset>
/********************************/
footer.php
/*******************************/
THIS IS FOOTER FILE 
USERNAME: <? echo $uname; ?>
/*******************************/
sidebar.php
/*******************************/
SIDEBAR 
USERNAME: <? echo $uname;?>
/*********************************/
header.php
/***********************************/
HEADER
 
USERNAME: <? echo $uname;?>

Anon

Ok, this works for me, and probably works for our friend. Just write the name of the variable without the "". So the important line of the code is:

Note that the echo function is without the "", this changes all.

I'm so grateful for this help. Thank you, friends! I already clean two troubles in my page with this forum!

Excuse the language of a brasilian guy.