variable scope + frames

devinemke

I guess a variable created in index.php is not available in a page within a frameset of index.php.

here's my problem: every page on my site is essentially index.php with the specfic page passed via get (index.php?page=contact, index.php?page=products, etc...). if a user points his browser directly to products.php i want to redirect to index.php?page=products. my first thought was to simply define a variable in index.php like this: $index = true; and the check to see if it isset in products.php and redirect if it isn't. but since frameset pages do not inheirit the variables of the parent page this won't work.

does this make sense? am i missing something obvious?

is there a PHP envirenmental variable that stores the exact URL in the browser address line?

travelbuff

Any of these w/a ereg match would probably do:
'SCRIPT_FILENAME', 'SCRIPT_NAME', 'REQUEST_URI' - http://www.php.net/reserved.variables

However, the simpler way may be to register a session variable that the child script can access - http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/41/0.php

Or, my personal choice, design the site so that it doesn't actually use frames (neither search engines nor users really like them) and instead use a template to achieve the same thing....

devinemke

sorry to revive an old thread but i found a (very obvious) solution to this that may help someone else:

in the index.php frameset tags do something like this:

<frame src="main.php?page=<?= $page ?>&index=true">

then at the top of main.php:

if (!isset($_GET['index'])) {header('location: index.php?page=' . $page);}

this way if a user goes directly to main.php (without going through the index.php frameset) the $_GET['index'] variable won't be set and they will be redirected. hope this helps someone.