session and framed page

Ali_baba

Hello,

I am facing a problem related to the sessions and the FRAMES.

Here is the scenario.

The user enters username and password in login.php.
After the authorization, the user is directed to data.php.

The data.php is actually a framed document holiding three php scripts. Data.php has session_start(); at the top of the page.

The structure of data.php is as follows.

[pre]

| header.php |
| ---------------------------------|
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| bar.php | work.php |
| | |
| | |
| | |
| | |

[/pre]

the header.php is just to show logo.
bar.php is the sidepar for choices. Anything selected from bar.php will be loaded in the frame where you can see work.php

Now the problem is that: If the session expires, I want user to go back to login.php. It doesn't happen actually. The login.php opens in the frame where you can see work.php.

Can anybody please tell me how to avoid from this mess?
Thanks in advance 🙂

Edit: Should I avoid frames? What you suggest? What you'd do?

Roger_Ramjet

Nothing wrong with frames, still a valid way to structure a site. When the time comes that CSS is able to do the same job across most browsers then use that, untill then we'll all carry on pragmatically using frames and tables for layout.

Now, personally I use a redirect for the whole window to return to the login page rather than worrying about individual frame content. Simply use something like this

//--- NOT LOGGED IN - display login page
if(!isset($user)) {
  	$_SESSION = array();
  	session_destroy;
?>
	</head>
	<body>
	<script language="javascript">
		window.location = "http://www.yourdom.com/login.php"
	</script>
	</body>
	</html>
<?
	exit;
}

Ali_baba

Thanks RR for your help.

I used search function here, and I came to know that most of the users had problems with frames. Any other solution that doesn't involve frames would be a little difficult for me as the sidemenu (bar.php) has DHTML. I would need to include that DHTML in one single page that would give me headaches with tables

Thanks once more 🙂