Passing vars between frames

[Anon]

Hey, i dunno if this is a simple or just a stupid qhestion. I'm developing a database based webpage, using of course PHP. So far I aint had too many problems. Until now of course.

Basically, I have a login page, where the user enters in their username and password. This username and password are then passed into the database connection commands, therefore allowing the user to access the db etc.

The problem I have is that my page is runnign a couple of frames. The main frame where the user enters their info, and then a side menu frame.I want to pass the vars($login and $pass) into the menu frame, while opening a differnet page in the main frame.

I've tried using the ACTION part of the form, but that only opens up the page i am sending the vars to.

I'm running PHP4 on windows with apache.

Any help will be appreciated a whole lot.

Cheers

Conor

[Anon]

with the use of javascript you can add one small frame in the login page , with hidden fields having value of username and password. which you can then force submit and which in turn will refresh the menu frame with the variables passed onto the menu page

[pnoeric]

Or, a different approach: the <FORM> tag will accept a TARGET modifier.... you can submit the form to the main frame, then have the main frame update the small frame after it loads.

[conor]

Cheers,

I think i got it figured, I'm using session vars now and they seem to do the trick.