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Asked: 2026-05-17T22:41:17+00:00

I have a study logout.php file which works fantastically, the issue I am faced

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I have a study logout.php file which works fantastically, the issue I am faced with however is putting the script into a new ‘intranet style’ administrative site which uses 4 frames within a frameset (header, left, center, right).

There are two requirements I need to meet which I am having a very difficult time finding a solution to (yes I know frames suck for today’s consumer sites but to reiterate, this is for an internal system administration panel with widgets everywhere).

  1. When a user clicks the ‘logout’ button in the top frame, the ENTIRE page is directed to logout.php which then redirects to a single page “home.php”. As of now, hitting logout only takes that particular frame to my desired destination.

  2. When a user logs in, a SESSION variables is created and set to true; if pages are visited without SESSION[validated]= true, the user is logged out. Similarly to above, IF this happens, I need the ENTIRE frameset directed to logout.php.

I am trying to achieve this without javascript (as this can obviously simply be disabled and JS is not a true measure for security).

Anybody ever dealt with this issue in the past?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Is the logout button a link? If so, can’t you use target="_parent" to make it change the page with the frameset?

    Edit
    Re #2: If the session is timed out, you could make an intermediary page with a link that uses target=_parent and the JavaScript below, both of which would break out of the frame.

    <script type="text/javascript">
if (top.location != self.location) top.location = 'login.php'
</script>

    This is good because if they have JavaScript enabled, they won’t even notice and if they don’t, they still will break out of the frames.

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