php in my frames

roomyz

sorry if this is not the right place but....

i have a page that has 3 frames,

the top frame is a header, and the bottom two frames are
where the user goes into a logon script.

i want to log off, but the problem is that when i go to the original page (HOME), the browser opens it in the frame on the bottom.
How do i make it so that the browser closes all the frames and opens the page in a frameless page again?

is this possible using php? or is it just a html problem?

thanx!

here is a screenshot:

http://www.msumain.edu.ph/images/phphelp.jpg

planetsim

I dont think this is very much PHP-related but i would make use of javascript for this

Basically make the logout button which goes into a new window

The Javascript function should have the window.open etc and a window.close

The Window.close bit should close the Framed Login Section while the Window.open will go somewhere else in the site.

DeltaRho2K

This is one of those vague areas as to where the post should go... I guess General Help is fine 😉

You need to look at the targeting in your logout. I don't know how you have your frames named, but I am going to break it down like this:

Your header frame is named "header" (very imaginative, I know)
Your left frame will be called "left"
Your right frame is "right"

OK, so what it looks like is the target for your logout is pointing to your "left" frame. What you should do is set your target to be "_top". Basically, this will put your home page into a fresh frameless browser, and start the process over... It's kind of tricky to explain, but I hope you get what I am saying here...

planetsim

What you didnt explain was how would the old browser window that has the logout button be closed.

DeltaRho2K

I believe we are dealing with just one browser window, so having said that, I would do something like this:

Where ever my logout link is (This doesn't matter if the link is somewhere within the frameset), I would do something like:

<a href="logout.php" target="_top">Logout</a>

This would remove the frameset, and load the logout page into the browser.

In the logout.php page, I would destroy the session (assuming you are using sessions), and then put a redirect back to the home page using:

<?
session_start();
header("Cache-control: private"); // IE 6 Fix.
session_destroy();
header("Location: http://www.yourdomain.com/homepage.php"); 
?>

roomyz

that was sweet.

thankx for the _top thing!

it workx

DeltaRho2K

No problem... I know the feeling... You get so engrained in the php portion of the coding, that sometimes the basics of HTML escape you... I think I do that once per day (at least)

Glad it worked for you 😉