Re: HOW TO: Reload a frame with a different URL? [LONG]

Richard, Thanks for the reply. However, it's not what I was looking for. :) I already have all the login and password stuff. What I'm trying to do is reload a different frame with a new html document once the user logs in. Thanks again, MarcJ In article <045b01c0fee3$a33eb140$6401a8c0@Lynchux100>, ceo@l-i-e.com says... > > Sorry for the simple question but I'm trying to learn a little more > > about PHP and just need a little help. I'm currently running PHP3 if > > that helps. I just need to reload the "main" frame on my site with a > > new page once the user has logged in. All the navigation and login are > > handled from a nav frame with PHP script that checks if the user is > > authenticated. I know I need to put the code in my if...else loop but > > I'm not sure what the code is. > > The FRAMEs are probably making your life harder, rather than easier... Oh > well. > > So, you have a FORM in one FRAME with a NAME=user and NAME=pass field, and > you want to let them log in with that?... > > You'll need to have, in that navigation FRAME: > > <FORM ACTION=login.php TARGET=main METHOD=POST> > > (Assuming you've used NAME=main in your FRAMESET page to name your man > frame...) > > Then, in login.php, you'll have, well, something to see if their > username/password are valid... > > Probably the easiest, or at least the most common solution, would be a MySQL > database: > > create table user ( > user_id auto_increment unique not null, > user text, > pass text > ); > insert into user(user, pass) values('MarcJ', password('secret')); > > NOTE the use of MySQL's "password" function. This basically scrambles the > word "secret" into something that nobody on the planet can unscramble back > to secret. More on that later... > > Then, in your login page, something not unlike: > > <?php > $query = "select user_id, password('$pass') = pass from user where user > = '$user'"; > /* > Okay, now what's going on here? > We're asking MySQL to look in the "user" table (... from user...) > for people whose username matches the input (...where user = > '$user'...) > and we are getting two things. > The first is relatively straight-forward: their user_id (select