Adding target='' to Header(Location:)

aarons44

I have the following piece of code:

header("Location: inventory_table_list.php?location_flag=4&search_direction=4 target='order_bottom'");

It open the new page, but it opens it in the main frame, instead of the bottom frame (named 'order_bottom'), which is what I would like it to do. Is it possible to use target with header() or am I out of luck? If I can't use it, is there another option? I need to pass the variables, or else I would just use javascript. Would it be possible to use the HTTP refresh instead?

Thanks,
Aaron

vaaaska

I don't believe it's possible that way.

What I've done before, if I can remember, was to include a trigger in the url like go=1 and then with javascript enact something simple like a page reload in another frame.

onload = <?if ($g == '1') {
echo "something to target the other frame
using javascript blah, blah"; } ?>

From there, you could get much more complicated if you wanted, but you'll need the javascript.

Good luck...v

davidjam

I agonized over this problem for quite a while at one point. I came up with all kinds of "solutions" for using frames and PHP, but they were complicated. Finally, I dropped frames altogether.

W3C (www.w3.org) has been working on something called X-Frames for a while which resolves frame problems by populating frame information in the URL. It is not a W3C Recommendation yet. I just sent the person who developed it an email to see what the status is.

Essentially you would include an XML namespace in your document like this:
<frames xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2002/06/xframes">
and then structure the frames within that tag

Here is the URL to the document:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xframes/

And here is the email:
(actually I just edited out the email. I guess it isn't a good idea to put someone else's email on a forum. But you can find it if you go to the above link.)

davidjam

I just received the email from the lead for x-frames and we can expect a new draft within a month or two. So it is still being developed, which is hopeful...

aarons44

Thanks, I guess I'll have to go the javascript route. I was worried about losing variables, but then I noticed that they were session variables anyhow, so it is not a major problem.

Interesting information on xframes. I'll have to check it out. I stepped into this project in the middle. If I had been here from the start, we wouldn't be using frames. What an awful pain in the butt they are!

Aaron

Mordecai

Originally posted by aarons44
header("Location: inventory_table_list.php?location_flag=4&search_direction=4 target='order_bottom'");

As you were told, you can't specify the target. However, no one mentioned that you weren't following the protocol with the "Location" header. You MUST specify a full URI when sending this header. ALWAYS!!!!! Anyone who says that you do not doesn't know what they are doing. If you saw it in a tutorial, ignore it, and email the author, telling him that his data is incorrect.

Please take a look at the RFC for HTTP before you try and use it. The section on headers is only a few pages long.