Link in an email

[Anon]

Sorry to bother you all. But I have a link in the email that is sent by the php mail() function. What I want to do is get the link to open in a one of the frames in the index.html file.... (I have 4 frames here) I can make a link that is in this index.html file to open in any of the frames......
I hope this is clear??

Here is the link in the email

<a href=\"http://server/authentication.php?REF=$maxREF&&username=$username \" target=index.html/Main>

Have also tried just " target=Main" but nothing I do seems to work....

Can anyone please help??
Thanks,
Ian

[Anon]

In your main frameset, you need to specify the name of each frame. The "target" should be the name of the frame you want the page to load in.

If your frameset looks like this ...

<frameset rows="100,*">
<frame name="top" src="top.htm">
<frame name="bottom" src="bottom.htm">
</frameset>

a link within the top frame that would target the bottom frame would look like this...

<a href="mypage.php" target="bottom">Click Here</a>

[Anon]

Thanks for your quick response David. But this authentication.php page is a page on it's own, it's only the index.html that has the frames set.....I need for the authentication.php page that's being called in the link to be opened in a fram called "Main" in the index.html page.....

[authentication.php is a loner, it has no frames]

Thanks again,
Ian

[Anon]

In that case, maybe you could have the auth page call the frameset page and pass the name of the page to load in the "main" frame.

It would then reload each frame with whatver page you specified.

Something like this ...
<a href="index.php?main_frame=auth">click here</a>

Change your index file to a PHP page, so it can parse the variables and it might look something like this ...

<?
if (main_frame == "auth") {
$main_frame = "authentication.php";
} else {
$main_frame = "whatver.htm"
}
?>
<frameset cols="100,*">
<frame name="main" src="<?=$main_frame; ?>">
<frame name="whatever" src="whatever.php">
</frameset>

Hope this makes sense.