RE: [PHP] update two frames at once?

I don't know if this is possible in PHP don't think so but you can do some very nifty things using JavaScript. Let's say you got two frames named links and main. Then you can for example do something like this in a page called contacts.php in the main frame <body class="main" onLoad="Javascript:top.frames[0].location='links.php?page=contacts'"> Then in your links.php page you could have this php code. if(isset($page)) { include("./links/$page.inc"); } As you can see, the value of $page can be whatever you want. So when you then browse to another page, lets say companies.php then you could include the special functions for that page in the links page. This can be very usable for webbased applications when you wan't to keep the functions on the right for each page, but want to change them whenever you change pages. There is a con to this all though. When you use this method and hit the back button you will only be taken one step back, so the links page will only be taken back but not the main screen. Best way to fix this is to set up a pretty obvious back button that is in the path of the user going to the left corner to the screen. The link on that one would then be: <a href="Javascript:history.back(-2)"> instead of the usual -1. Hope this helps, Maron Kristofersson Reykjavik Iceland http://www.discovericeland.is/ -----Original Message----- From: Michael George [mailto:george@mintcity.com] Sent: 12. mars 2001 21:06 To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] update two frames at once? Hello al! Is it possible to have two frames updated when cliking on one link? I have a page that is broken into 4 parts: master title section title d section screen i r . what I want is that when a link is clicked on in the directory (the left column), I'd like to update the section title *and* the section screen... It seemed a cool layout at the time, but I'm thinking this isn't easily possible and I might just have to incorporate a section title on the section screen... But before I rewrite it, I thought I'd ask here. Thanks! -Michael P.S. I'd like to commend the regular posters to this list on being SOOO informative and patient! Every small question to this list always gets several useful answers, even when I've seen questions asked over and again. -- No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best. -- Thomas Jefferson, to Joseph Cabell, 1816 -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net