UBB.Developers Forums UBB.threads 7 Development How Do I? Set browser location via PHP?

Hey gang,

I cannot find a reference to this, and am sure it is something very simple... but how do you programmatically set the browser's URL? Something akin to parent.location.href in JS?

Is this possible?

You can send a redirect with php, but this only works if there is no ouput before that command.
Just do something like this:


header("Location: http://www.example.net/subfolder/file.php");


It should be an absolute URL, a relative URL works on most browsers, but the specification requires an absolute URL.

What about changing the URL of a frame?

You can't change the location of another frame.
PHP is a server side scripting language and has no access to any dom or windows object of the browser.

Lemme 'splain... This is actually more complex than I thought.

I have a page that has 3 frames... top, menu and main. The page is the entry point for a database, and the menu has links that are disabled until the user creates a recored. So, they click the only available link, which loads the basic info input screen into the main frame. The SUBMIT button calls a PHP script that saves the info to the DB, creating the new row. Now, I need the record ID from that new row to be able to input all of the other data (all going into associative tables in DB). I can get that with mysql_insert_id, but I need to pass it over to the menu so I can pass it along to all of the subsequent pages. Very much like a typical Windows Wizard works.

Question is, once I have that record ID from the PHP script, how do I pass it over to the menu frame???

Thanks a ton for any input!

Well, that was easy... didn't realize I could just echo a script statement at the end of the PHP file...

Yes, echoing javascript code works fine if your users have javascript enabled. It gets more complicated, if they haven't, but that shouldn't be the case, i guess.

Thanks, Astaran. The JS solution should work, and since it is in a proprietary app, I can enforce it for those that wish to use it.