Help please redirecting frame pages using php

[Dynamo]

Hi

My site uses frames and some of the frame pages are ranked higher in search
engine rankings than the main page. When somebody clicks on the link it takes
them to the frame page and they don't see my page as it should be viewed plus it
displays a javascript error.

I need a way using php so that when the link is clicked on in either yahoo or
lycos that it loads the main frame html page (not the subframe html) and that
the subframe html page is loaded into the correct frame within the mainframe
html page. Is this possible and how?

As ever any help greatly appreciated.

TIA
Dynamo

[Erwin Moller]

Dynamo wrote:

Hi

My site uses frames and some of the frame pages are ranked higher in
search engine rankings than the main page. When somebody clicks on the
link it takes them to the frame page and they don't see my page as it
should be viewed plus it displays a javascript error.
Frames are evil. :-)

I need a way using php so that when the link is clicked on in either yahoo
or lycos that it loads the main frame html page (not the subframe html)
and that
the subframe html page is loaded into the correct frame within the
mainframe html page. Is this possible and how?
Yes, but I think you better use Javascript instead of PHP.
Your problem is this: People click on a hyperlink that points to a certain
html-file (or PHP file).
Then the page is fetched and delivered into the browser.
The browser should now check to see if the requested page is in a frame as
it should.

You can start your html-pages (or html generated by PHP) with certain checks
to see if there are frames present.

But try reposting this question to a javascript newsgroup for more
information. (comp.lang.javascript)

Regards,
Erwin Moller


As ever any help greatly appreciated.

TIA
Dynamo

[Dynamo]

In article <42***********************@news.xs4all.nl>, Erwin Moller says...

Dynamo wrote:

Hi

My site uses frames and some of the frame pages are ranked higher in
search engine rankings than the main page. When somebody clicks on the
link it takes them to the frame page and they don't see my page as it
should be viewed plus it displays a javascript error.
Frames are evil. :-)

I need a way using php so that when the link is clicked on in either yahoo
or lycos that it loads the main frame html page (not the subframe html)
and that
the subframe html page is loaded into the correct frame within the
mainframe html page. Is this possible and how?

Yes, but I think you better use Javascript instead of PHP.
Your problem is this: People click on a hyperlink that points to a certain
html-file (or PHP file).
Then the page is fetched and delivered into the browser.
The browser should now check to see if the requested page is in a frame as
it should.

You can start your html-pages (or html generated by PHP) with certain checks
to see if there are frames present.

But try reposting this question to a javascript newsgroup for more
information. (comp.lang.javascript)

Regards,
Erwin Moller

As ever any help greatly appreciated.

TIA
Dynamo

OK Thanks for that. I'll try posting messgae in javascript newsgroup. And yes I
know that frames are evil but having just achieved number 1 rankings for my site
I am reluctant to make any major changes.
Regards
Dynamo

[Sandman]

In article <d9*********@drn.newsguy.com>, Dynamo <Dy***********@newsguy.com>
wrote:

Hi

My site uses frames and some of the frame pages are ranked higher in search
engine rankings than the main page. When somebody clicks on the link it takes
them to the frame page and they don't see my page as it should be viewed plus
it
displays a javascript error.

I need a way using php so that when the link is clicked on in either yahoo or
lycos that it loads the main frame html page (not the subframe html) and that
the subframe html page is loaded into the correct frame within the mainframe
html page. Is this possible and how?

As ever any help greatly appreciated.

1. Stop using frames. :)

2. Your problem can't be solved with PHP since each frame loads an individual
PHP script (or html document) that are unaware whether they are inside a frame
or not.

The only way is to use JavaScript, that is executed by the browser itself,
which is the only application that knows the constellation of frames.

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Sandman[.net]