Re: file organization question

May be you can try <? if(......){ ?> <script language='javascript'> location.href="nextpage.html"; (i am not sure the syntax here) </script> <? } ?> Rusty Wright <rusty@socrates.Berkeley.EDU> wrote in message news:200007210003.RAA03516@socrates.Berkeley.EDU... > I'm trying to figure out the best way to organize my html and php > files; no doubt others have already addressed these issues. If there > is a web page that explains this feel free to post the url. > > For the record, I'm using php-4.0.1pl2, apache_1.3.12, and > mysql-3.23.21-beta. There isn't anything involving money or sensitive > information so I'm not using SSL. > > I've set myself a task to learn mysql and php with a project that > hopefully will result in something useful for a non-profit I do > volunteer work for. > > At the moment I'm working on the login page and the new user page. > The new user page is an html file with a form that has fields for > their name, address, phone numbers, email address and password. Their > email address will be their login id. > > The login page is also an html file with a form with two fields, for > email address and password. The html for the page starts like the > following: > > > <html><head><title>title</title></head><body> > <form name="test0" action="output0.php" method=post> > <table> > <tr> > <td><label for="pr_email">Email address:</label></td> > <td><input name="pr_email" id="pr_email" type="text" > value="" size="20"></td> > </tr> > ... > > The output0.php file does all the "usual" stuff; checks to see if the > email address is not empty, same with the password, connects to mysql > and fetches the password, compares the password with the stored > password, etc. etc. > > The first thing that bothers me is that the output0.php file that is > called by this form has two jobs; the first is to verify the user and > sign them in. The second job is to generate the next web page they > see after a successful login. It seems like it would be cleaner, and > more logical, if the output0.php file only signed them in and then an > .html file presented the next page. But I can't see how to have > another page sent separately by the output0.php file; it seems that > the best I can do is to have it do something like > include("nextpage.html"). By "sent separately" I mean that the > Address or Location box in the web browser shows the url for > nextpage.html and not output0.php. Is this possible? (And don't tell > me about mod_rewrite; I'm wondering if it can be done for real, not > faked). > > The other thing that bothers me is that the output0.php file is using > php's sessions, so all of the code that verifies them has to go before > the <html> start tag so that session_start() can try to use cookies. > And because of that none of that code can do any error output since it > won't be properly formatted by my .css file, which is pulled in via a > <link> in the <head>. This tends to make for a certain amount of > bending over backwards. I was wondering if people had any suggestions > or thoughts about this, or is what I'm doing just the way it's done? > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >