Redirection and frames - php

I've been researching this topic for the past few hours with little success. I wish to redirect from the content of a frame, to the parent of the frame using php. .. The only reason I think it's possible is because I disabled javascript on my browser and phpMyAdmin was still able to redirect me when the session ran out of time.
I also realize it is most likely not possible, given that frames are a client-side thing, and php is not.
That in mind, I'm wondering how phpMyAdmin does it. I do not wish for js to be required for my web application.

If an iframe has links which looks like this:
Some page
it should work, as long as both pages or on the same domain.
Alternatively, take a look at this answer: How to force link from iframe to be opened in the parent window

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How to stop php process in iframe?

I have a rotator link and I dont want to allow people to open it in iframe.
How to stop php process in iframe?
header("X-FRAME-OPTIONS: DENY");
does not work in firefox and chrome. my link is (EDITED)
Check the Access-control-allow-origin header.
It allows you to control which domain can access or frame your scripts.
You can choose between 3 values :
Only from the same domain
Only from a domain listed on a list you made
From anyone (wildcard)
Since PHP is never in an iframe but executed on the server side there is no way to reliably know if the request originated from an iframe on your site of not.
If your intention (which is not quite clear) is to make sure people don't put an iframe of your site on another site, then you can check for the referrer of the request etc. But most of it can be spoofed.
Update due to comment:
Then there is unfortunately no good standardized way of getting this type of information reliably. If you yourself had an iframe on your site and for some reason didn't want that to be able to call your script you could probably do this by adding some GET parameters via javascript or something. But since you have pretty good control over your own iframes this shouldn't be a problem.
But when it comes to determining of the request from the browser to your server originated in an iframe or not there is no information in the HTTP header to disclose this. The only thing you could possibly be informed about is if that iframe is from a page hosted on another domain.
But if you have an iframe on your own site, don't add any extra parameters to the request and access your script in it and then normally from the browser's main window the two requests will look the same on the server.
I'm not completely sure if I understand your question, but here's a list of things:
If you want to stop your page being loaded in an iframe, there's not easy way of doing that, if the browser is ignoring X-Frame-Options: DENY.
If you have a link the user can click that opens in the iframe, not the parent frame, you can use the base html tag, to specify to the browser to open any links you click in the parent frame, with <base target="_parent" />
If you want to redirect automatically, and that causes an issue when loaded in an iframe because you use headers to do it or something, you could probably use the base tag and some javascript to automate clicking on the link as an alternative

Make a URL Navigation load instantly

What has been known for a while, is that a "fast navigation" works easily for http://example.com/#1 --> http://example.com/#2.
However, there is a new technique out there. It enables fast navigation between http://example.com/1 --> http://example.com/2.
EXAMPLE: http://rageslide.com/
As you can see in the example, the navigation between http://rageslide.com/1 and http://rageslide.com/2 etc. via swiping apparantly DOES NOT FORCE THE ENTIRE SITE TO RELOAD.
I'd like to do the same for my site, but I have no idea how to do this. All pages served by my site are dynamic (via PHP and MYSQL).
I have this idea:
Cache the generated output of a page (http://example.com/2) for 60 seconds.
When the user is on http://example.com/1 preload (http://example.com/2) via Javascript.
The user navigates from http://example.com/1 to http://example.com/2. Since the content is preloaded and cached, the content will be served to the user instantly.
Different idea:
Somehow, http://example.com/1 is being interpreted as http://example.com/content.php#1 through a .htaccess. But I have no idea if this is possible or not.
Will this work? Or what would be the best way to solve this problem?
No, the url you see there is not used to load another page. There are AJAX requests in the javascript code contained in the website, that load the new content to display and update the URL bar.
You can read more about it in this article and in the following questions asked in the past:
Modify the URL without reloading the page
Updating address bar with new URL without hash or reloading the page
i can think of two possible thing you can try out.
first is simply use iframes to load the next and previous page of each page, and when someone swipes to the next page load the next page to a new iframe or a div with ajax or any other html element for that matter.
the other is to use the rel attribute, here is an explanation about it.
hope this helps you out
you can get pretty close without scripting anything or degrading the site by letting the browser cache the expected navigation point resources
for caching images, put dummies at the end of the body
<img .... height="0" width="0">
and for pages
<link rel=”prefetch” href=”url” /> there is also a rel attribute for next and previous for slide viewer type pages
Note: the url can be a javascript resource
Note2: the transition may be slightly less clean than dynamically populating from javascript especially on larger complex pages, but will still work with noscript or javascript turned off, so maybe a good fallback

Designing a container page

Are there any potentiall pitfalls with the following idea:
...I want to have one container page, index.php. The header and outlines will be constant but in the middle I want one big panel, which loads its content from external php files, one for each "slide". When a user click a link, the central div will update with the new content, the outer edge will remain unchanged.
Will I be able to use session variables, etc correctly with the set-up. I realise it will certainly break the browser history but other than some possible UI issues, are there any techincal barriers.
This is a common thing, as Jared stated. Session variables are always available through ajax or frames, so it shouldn't affect anything there, and if browser history is something you would like to continue to use, you could always change your location.hash when you load new content so that you can load previously rendered content with some javascript if someone uses the back or forward buttons.
The session should not be lost.
The browser history does not need to be lost also - please read about onPopState (and history.pushState) and onHashChange JS events. The AJAX-heavy sites can determine the content to be loaded that way.
One of the pitfails is, if you are using a lot of JS, that the events for the newly loaded content will need to be re-attached, but they can also be delegated from the container which is not replaced.
jQuery's .load() function may be also useful to you to get started.

Cross subdomain ajax longpolling

I am creating a notifications script that check a database for changes and returns then in a javascript custom popup.
I have successfully made the jquery ajax loading and processing script, and php long polling page.
all this worked great aside from the fact the long lasting request prevented any other ajax loaded content from working. I found that the way to stop this was to move it onto a different subdomain.
however this causes issues with the js "Same Origin Policy", all the possible ways of doing this seem to not work with long connection speeds or the other option php proxy defeats the whole point in seperate domains.
Does anyone have any ideas how to do this, or any help at all.
Thanks
Oli
Another thing you could try is padded json. You can create a dynamic script at some url which accepts GET parameters, like sub.domain.com/jsonp.php?var=value which returns something like:
var response={a:1,b:2}
And you could dynamically load a <script/> element with that url as the source. The variable set in the jsonp will be accessible to other scripts, and is not subject to SOP.
There is no way for solving this in a easy way.... the easiest way that I found is the following:
Create an IFrame (yes I know), this IFrame has to load a page coming from the subdomain (sub.example.com/base)
Both pages the main and the one loaded in the IFrame has to set the document.domain to '.example.com' after this you would be able to
Make the long polling from the IFrame without occupiying one of the two domains connection
Communicate between the main page and the IFrame, so you can just leave the IFrame for long-polling and then call a callback to the parent
This also solves another problem that you would have later that is the browser loding spinning wheel spinning until the first long poll is finished....

Opening Javascript based popup ads on the same page

I own an image hosting site and would like to generate one popup per visitor per day. The easiest way for me to do this was to write a php script that called subdomains, like ads1.sitename.com
ads2.sitename.com
unfortunatly most of my advertisers want to give me a block of javascript code to use rather than a direct link, so I can't just make the individual subdomains header redirects.I'd rather use the subdomains that way I can manage multiple advertisers without changing any code on page, just code in my php admin page. Any ideas on how I can stick this jscript into the page so I don't need to worry about a blank ads1.sitename.com as well as the popup coming up?
I doubt you'll find much sympathy for help with pop-up ads.
How about appending a simple window.close() after the advertising code? That way their popup is displayed and your window closes neatly.
I'm not sure that I've ever had a browser complain that the window is being closed. This method has always worked for me. (IE, Firefox, etc.)
At the risk of helping someone who wants to deploy popup ads (which is bound to fail due to most popup blockers anyway), why can't you just have the subdomains load pages that load the block of Javascript the advertisers give you?
Hey, cut the guy some slack. Popups might not be very nice, but at least he's trying to reduce the amount of them. And popup blockers are going to fix most of it anyway. In any case, someone else might find this question with more altruistic goals (not sure how they'd fit that with popups, but hey-ho).
I don't quite follow your question, but here's some ideas:
Look into Server Side Includes (SSI) to easily add a block of javascript to each page (though you could also do it with a PHP include instead)
Do your advertiser choosing in your PHP script rather than calling the subdomains
Decipher the javascript to work out what it's doing and put a modified version in the subdomain page so it doesn't need an additional popup. Shouldn't be too hard.

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