accessing a variable in another file

[jakez]

hello, i was hoping someone could help me out.
Im making a webpage with 2 frames. Frame1.php & frame2.php the source for both of these frames have php & html. now in frame1 i am saving text to a variable $text1 , i cant figure out how to access this variable and print it to the other frame with print $text1;
in frame2.php i have tried using include("frame1.php"); but this outputs the whole page to this frame all i want to do is have this variable availible in frame2.php so i can print just the text in $text1 to the frame. i also tried using global $text1; this didnt work either.
well hopefully someone could help out.

jacob

[bj_]

I havn't checked it out and i don't know much about php with frames. I think the easyest way to pass the variable between frames would be to uses a session. It would look something like this. Usualy you are better of not using frames at all.

---

<?php
// frame1

session_start();

$text1 = 'some string';
// when registering pass the name of the variable as a string
// not the actual variable

session_register( 'text1' );

?>

<?php
// frame2

session_start();

// this is just like the session_register() function in that you
// use the varible name as a string not the actual varaible
// identifier

$text1 = HTTP_SESSION_VARS['text1'];

?>

[adrian_quah]

hey guys,
one way ard is to include the same variable in another file which can be accessed by both files, let's call it global_vars.inc

Thats is ur $text is edited by the first frame, next the frame 2 accesses the data from global_vars.inc