redirect help

chads2k2

How's it going? I have a question for everyone, I have a chatroom I built that has 3 iframes. I want one of the iframes to just keep checking to see if they are still logged in (not hard), and then just do a refresh or something that will kick them out of the chatroom and take them back to the main site. That is where I am having trouble. I tried a meta refresh and it loads the page fine, just in the iframe. How do I kick out of that iframe and make it load overtop everything without opening a new window? It's like a target="_top" thing but you can't do that in the refresh thing...or can you? If you guys/gals could give me some ideas that would be great. I have also thought that this could be handled by Javascript I don't know, let me know your ideas. Thanks so much!

Chad R. Smith

weekender

i think you do it like this

in your parent doc, give the HTML tag an ID attribute

<HTML ID="parentwindow"...

(it may go in the body tag instead, not sure)

then, when you want to redirect, do

parentwindow.location = 'index.htm';

if you are halfway through generating a page in php and want to redirect, output this

<SCRIPT FOR="body" EVENT="onload">
parentwindow.location = 'index.htm';
</SCRIPT>

and the page will redirect when it gets to that point

hope that helps

adam

chads2k2

EDIT:
Yeah I tried doing this word for word but I still can't get it. So any other suggestions?

Chad

weekender

use echo and var_dump, use the manual (www.php.net/manual) and if you still need a hand, show us some code.

nobody's going to do it for you if you don't try some initiative