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Anon

I open 10 browsers, the active window
is number 10. Each browser viewing
different website.

I want to use php or javascript to get the
url of browser number 4 which is in active.
Can i do that ,and how ?

Thanks for answering

Anon

Nope, 'fraid not. PHP is a server-side language, and so can't interface with the client side. You need to look into JavaScript or equivalents.

adam

Anon

It is true that PHP itself can't do that, but it's also true that Java cannot do it either.

Active X "should" not be able to do it either.

It's called "frame snooping", meaning one frame can see what another frame is doing. (this is similar)

In all remotely recent browsers (that I know of), frame snooping was made nearly impossible (I know no way of doing it, but some lengthy hack may be possible).

Simply, one frame being able to look at another, while helpful for some developers, is a horrible security risk.

Thus, Microsoft/Netscape/Opera/Everybody do their best to keep it from happening.

Even more is being able to "window snoop", which is also nearly impossible as it's even a bigger security hole.

In short, you can't do it.

The only possible way would be to create a plug-in and have your user install it, use some form of applet which your client must agree to running each time you want to use it (like on those online hard drive backup thingey places...the names escape me at the moment...maybe freedrive etc).

The other way would be to find some of those old java/active x hacks, and then you could use it and have it work on old browsers.

The problem is, a large amount of security programs (and many browsers even) tag this as a major security breach, and will send up bells and whistles all over the place.

The only faster way to get rid of a user is header("Location🙂, lol.

In short, nope, not possible. ;(

Anon

Why not just use sessions? This is very easy.

While the session is still open, use eregi to see what browser's are currently open.

Or use mysql..

If I understood this correctly.. 🙂

[ John Barker
[ Resident PHP Hacker(TM)

Anon

John, you are miss understanding : )

I open 10 browsers, can you know the name
or index for each browsers ?

Anon

well you could probably do this with javascript, if each of the windows was launched from a link from your site.

say you open each window with something like:

function window1() {
window.open(foo.html,foo);
}

function window2() {
window.open(bar.html,bar);
}

etcetera.

window.opener is the name of the window
that lanched each of these. you could
extract the location, change the location,
etcetera of that one.

you could also probably get the location of
one of the new popwindows by calling it's name (the second argument in the function).

so maybe something like

function getloc2(loc) {
alert(loc);
}

and calling it like...

getloc('bar.location');

or something. the syntax on these
is probably fairly wrong...wrong enough
you'd need to check it out.

i'm not really sure if it would work out of
the domain either...worth a shot though.

-a