I am looking for exactly the same thing. There must be a way to handle this problem from php. Doing it from javascript makes sense only if you have a simple website. Besides I don't use frames, so even with javascript I can't solve the problem.
Maybe there's a way to find a browser's unique id! Any ideas....would be helpful!!! -----Original Message----- From: Neil Kimber [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 04 March 2002 16:02 To: LuC .; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [PHP] Multiple browser instances - is it possible to determine which browser How would that help directly in PHP? PHP cannot interrogate framesets or other attributes of the browser. I could see this working if we had javascript that wanted to keep track of which browser instance is being handled. But from PHP I don't see how this could work. PHP can interrogate the browser to some extent (i.e. to ask for the browser name/version etc..), I guess that what we are looking for is some property of the browser that we can set that PHP can also pickup, or some unique id for a browser instance. > -----Original Message----- > From: LuC . [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 04 March 2002 15:46 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [PHP] Multiple browser instances - is it possible to > determine which browser > > > Create a frame set. > > if your page opens without frameset the did something wrong, at least not > allowed. (like open in a new window) > If the main page, containing the frameset is loaded, the page is > opened in a > new window or they pressed f5(reload). > > > =========== > We've considered using javascript but cannot think of a way that > would work. > Take a simple example, 2 browsers - opened separately, pointing > at different > pages. We thought that we could set some property of each instance of the > browser to a unique value (i.e. the window name). We would only need to do > it once, when entering the site. > > But, when a new page is loaded there is no way from PHP to grab > this unique > value, unless it has been sent to the loaded page as a GET or > POST variable. > This would mean that we would have to pass this value to every > page as a GET > or POST variable. GETs are problematic, leaving us with POSTs only. But > POSTING to every page is a pain. > > Is there any other way? > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Dennis Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > >Sent: 04 March 2002 15:28 > >To: Neil Kimber; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: [PHP] Multiple browser instances - is it possible to > >determine which browser? > > > > > >You may consider the use of Javascript to control the parent and child > >windows and frames of your application. > > > >/dkm > > > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Neil Kimber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Monday, March 04, 2002 9:51 AM > >Subject: [PHP] Multiple browser instances - is it possible to determine > >which browser? > > > > > > > We have an application framework that tidies up application session > > > variables as you traverse from page to page. It works really nicely - > >until > > > a user opens up 2 instances of a browser. Our code cannot distinguish > > > between different browser instances, so browser instance 2 causes our > > > application session vars for browser instance 1 to be cleared out. > > > > > > We've toyed with many ideas and short of forcing a unique > >hidden value to > >be > > > 'POST'ed to every page from every page we don't have an elegant > >solution. > >Is > > > there any other way that we could do this? > > > > > > Neil > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Meld je aan bij de grootste e-mailservice wereldwijd met MSN Hotmail: > http://www.hotmail.com/nl > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
