Re: How does everyone else do this? .php in URL

on 5/9/01 1:01 PM, Michael Champagne at mchampagne@capis.com wrote: > I have an area of our site where you can turn off certain 'systems' by > clicking a button. This is all done in HTML and it brings up a javascript box > to verify that this is really what you want to do.. It then does a > header("location: ...") to redirect to a .php file that locks down the site. > The problem is that the browser saves this in the history and sometimes will > do complete this .php file in a URL and the site is locked down by accident. > Is there a better way to call a certain function of the site rather than doing > a header("location: ...") redirection? How does everyone else do this? > > Thanks! > Mike I do something like this to move files around between boxes. I have a webpage that allows a traffic manager to select a date/time to checkout files from CVS. This date stamp is written to a file, /tmp/doSync.tmp, and a mail message warning of the impending checkout is sent to the traffic manager. A cron job checks for the existence of /tmp/doSync.tmp, and if found a CVS checkout is made to a temp directory /tmp/tempScripts/ using the metadata from inside the file (date, time, etc). Another cron script runs rsync to distribute the files where they belong, and removes the /tmp/doSync.tmp script mailing the results of the rsync script to the sysadmin. The page that writes the original file is in PHP, and PHP scripts read the contents of /tmp/doSync.tmp whenever a traffic manager loads the page to let him/her know if a checkout is pending or not. I get around your problem like this, the main page loads a form whose action is a php script that will place the tmp file, and then redirects back to the main page. This makes the redirect happen after the fact. I also have a lag in the cron job to give the traffic manager a chance to intercede after receiving the mail notification. Does that make sense? main.php <form action='place_temp.php'> place_temp.php if ($fp=fopen('/tmp/doSync.tmp', 'w')) { fwrite($fp,"$cvsDateTime \n"); fclose($fp); chmod("/tmp/tmp/doSync.tmp", 0666); $message = "A checkout of HTML/PHP files is scheduled \n"; $message .= "If this is an error, you may cancel "; $message .= "<a href='http://dev.server.com/rm_temp.php'>here.</a>"; mail("root@dev.server.com,"Files moving Live!!",$message); header("Location: main.php"); } else { header("Location: main.php"); } Cron jobs do the rest. -- Dave Goodrich Director of Interface Development Reality Based Learning Company 9521 NE Willows Road, Suite 100 Redmond, WA 98052 Toll Free 1-877-869-6603 ext. 237 Fax (425) 558-5655 daveg@rblc.com http://www.rblc.com