Header/frame question...

[andreash]

Hey I have a probobly very easy question.

I use the Header function to redirect, ofcourse... but I use frames and I need the redirection to target=_top (HTML ex.).

How do I do this?

[reagent]

The short answer is that the header() function cannot specify a target (as well it shouldn't) and that you must use something like javascript to create that functionality.

I tend to stay away from frames, since coding dynamic sites tend to be 10x harder when you have to redirect to other frames and pass data between them..

p.

[Anon]

I had this problem myself, and here's what I ended up doing:

Instead of specifying the TARGET in the header, I specified it in the HTML form used to call the page which redirects using header();

So, using an arbitrary login example, my design roughly looks like this:

--- index.html ---

<FRAME SRC="top_frame.php" >
<FRAME SRC="bottom_frame.php">

--- my_form_page.html ---

<FORM ACTION="login_script.php" TARGET="top_frame.php" METHOD="POST">
<INPUT TYPE="text" NAME="form_field">
</FORM>

--- login_script.php ---

<?php

// login successful
if (validate($form_field)){
header(location: member_menu.html);
}

// login failed
else{
header(location: non_member_menu.html);
}
?>

---

If you want your header to change the content of 2 or more frames, use TARGET="_top" in your FORM, and redirect the header to a new index page, such as index2.html, that recreates all the frames.

I hope this helps.

Jon
www.jonbender.com