Frames...Let me out!

[m_henry]

If I have a user accessing a page I don't want them in I use a redirection like this:
header("Location:backthere.html");

Now if they are in a frame how can I redirect them to the page and break them out of the frame?

Thanks for any help.

Marcel.

[ccgorman]

I am almost cetain this has to be done in JavaScript, but if I am wrong let me know.

If I am correct you will have to print JavaScript to the page to locate the user to a new page.

-David

[lawnmowerman]

One way to break out of a frameset is to use a 'target' of
'_top' in the href, like this:

<a href='nextpage.php4' target='_top'>Next Page</a>

This will clear all frames and load nextpage.php4 in the current window.

Breaking out of a frameset is client side, so I don't think you can use a url or header to change the frameset without reloading the main frame url, which is in window '_top'.

At least I've never seen a way to use the URL or header (with the exception of the 'target' directive and/or javascript) to change which window/frame is updated.

Hope this helps.

-Rich

[m_henry]

Thanks for the help. Yeah I pretty much figured it was going to have to be a javascript solution. Since I alwys kick back to the same page, I just implemented an Auto-Frame-Break javascript in the head of this page. It works. 🙂

Thanks again for your help.