[Resolved] javascript IN php reload page...

[vaska]

i'm trying to reload a page in a frame from a dynamcially set value...meaning, when you push the button in frame 2 with option 2 it will update frame 1 with option 2 as well (ie menu.php?option=2 or menu.php?option=3, etc)...

this is my little snippet of code..."mainleft" is the name of the frame i want to reload...

if ($saveprev) {
$result = mysql_query ("UPDATE main SET id='$id',option='$option' WHERE id='$id'") or die ("Nada working...");
?>
<script language="javascript">
parent.mainleft.location.reload='menu.php?option=<? echo $option; ?>';
</script>
<?
header("Location: content.php?q=preview&id=$id");
}

but...it's just not working properly...it passes through the javascript just fine and sends the page in frame 2 to the correc place...

any ideas out there on what i might not have correct...sorry, since this is in part a javascript question (but i've seen this many times before in here)...

muchos gracias...vaska

[sarahk]

You don't say what the problem is but ...

you output the javascript and then call header() and that can't happen. the header() won't work once you've output html/javascript/text

so..

 if ($saveprev) 
{ 
  $result = mysql_query ("UPDATE main SET `id` = '{$id}',`option`='{$option}' WHERE `id`='{$id}'") 
        or die ('Nada working...'); 
$jsTxt = "<script language='javascript'> 
  parent.mainleft.location.reload="menu.php?option={$option} 
</script> ";

//make $q available, $id already exists
$q = 'preview';

include 'content.php';

echo $jsTxt;

echo $jsTxt at the end, it will run even if it's after the </html> tag although it would be better to call it earlier. Maybe if content.php had a header section it could test to see:

if (isset( $jsTxt)) echo $jsTxt;

[vaska]

interesting...because the header IS working...but that's something i wasn't aware of...

i'm not following you on this part...

"//make $q available, $id already exists
$q = 'preview';"

thanks...vaska

[sarahk]

$q = 'preview';

In the header command the url had ?q=preview.

I figured this is a variable expected by the content script so we needed to create it before "including" content as we can't pass variables when we include.

[vaska]

i'm posting my solution for this dilemma should anybody stumble upon ye thread...

in a nutshell...i don't need to use a header...i just needed to pass things onto javascript...but also, since i'm using frames, and i want both frames to reload dynamically...i need to make those dynamic as well...

no laughing at my code...i'm trying hard...😃

a snippet from the frames...if/else since at one point in things no information is passed to them...

<FRAME name="mainleft" src="<? if ($m == NULL) { echo "menus.php?m=2&status=1"; }
else { ?>menus.php?m=<? echo $m ?>&status=<? echo $status ?><? } ; ?>">
<FRAME name="mainright" src="<? if ($q == NULL) { echo "blank.php"; }
else { ?>cont.php?q=<? echo $q ?>&id=<? echo $id ?><? } ; ?>">

and inside the page...nothing special is done to get this to work...just took out the header:location and dropped in some javascript...

if ($saveprev) {
$result = mysql_query ("UPDATE table SET id='$id',status='$status' WHERE id='$id'")
or die ("Not working you fool!");
echo ("
<SCRIPT language=\"JavaScript\">
top.content_area.location.href='menu_p.php?m=2&status=$status&id=$id&q=preview';
</SCRIPT>");
}

voila...vaska