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• manarak
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 09, 2007 - 11:59 AM

  Hello
  
  I need some help with the following please.
  
  Suppose I have file1.php in the PN main directory.
  file1.php contains the basics of the PN framework, in this manner:
  
  

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  include 'includes/pnAPI.php';
  pnInit();
  include 'includes/legacy.php';
  
  if(!IsSet($mainfile)) { include ("mainfile.php"); }
  include("config.php");
  
  include("header.php");
  OpenTable();
  
  *** my stuff here ***
  
  CloseTable();
  include("footer.php");
  

  
  
  In file1.php, I can use PN functions such as pnSecAuthAction, pnUserVars, etc...
  
  Now I have also file2.php, located in the same PN root dir as file1.php.
  I want to call file2.php from file1.php using an Iframe:
  
  

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  include 'includes/pnAPI.php';
  pnInit();
  include 'includes/legacy.php';
  
  if(!IsSet($mainfile)) { include ("mainfile.php"); }
  include("config.php");
  
  include("header.php");
  OpenTable();
  
  
  
  CloseTable();
  include("footer.php");
  

  
  
  In file2.php I also need the functions of the PN framework, but file2 does not recognize the logged in user, regardless if I include in file2 the PN includes or not.
  I suppose this is normal behavior for Iframes, but is there a way around it, and have my user properly identified by file2.php as being logged in?
  I think, since both files are on my site, the PN cookie should be readable also by file2?
  If so, why isn't the user logged in inside the iframe, if he is logged in in the parent frame?
  
  Is there a way to get the user to be logged in inside the iframe?
  I have to use an Iframe for what I want to achieve.
  
  I would appreciate any help.
  
  
  P.S.
  Posting full code snippets to the forum, including the PHP tags, somehow does not work

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 09, 2007 - 06:34 PM

  Is this happening with IE only? Although it specifically references ASPX pages, I think the following may be a similar issue. It's possible that a different session cookie is being generated for the main page and the iframe. http://www.aspnetresources.com/blog/frames_webforms_and_rejected_cookies.aspx

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• manarak
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 09, 2007 - 08:02 PM

  Of course, the solution should work also in other browsers, but I was stopped by this problem while testing with IE.
  And since IE is a must (80% of my users), I need to solve that problem.
  
  I thought that PN already uses a P3P policy for the cookies?

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 09, 2007 - 11:12 PM

  An iframe is to display a page, not using a system, sort of. As you can display a page from site X, in an iframe in site Y. Ofcourse the page on site X, doesn't know if the user on site Y is logged in or not.
  .
  For file1.php you load the postnuke system, and in file2.php you don't. Since an iframe is for use of external pages, this is normal if you don't load the system within that file.
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  Just load postnuke within file2.php, only include the API, start it using the pnInit(), and you can use postnuke within the iframe. The use of an iframe doesn't update the browser address, since it's in a frame. Searh engines will find the content of file2.php and index those, resulting in visitors from search engines directly hit the file2.php, and not file1.php. Which means they won't see the content around the iframe for that matter.
  .
  BTW: the starting of postnuke you quoted, is way old. Can be shortend to:
  

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  <?php
  
  include("includes/pnAPI.php");
  pnInit();
  include("header.php");
  OpenTable();
  
  .. your stuff ..
  
  CloseTable();
  include("footer.php");
  
  ?>

  
  The open and close table stuff isn't actually needed either.

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• manarak
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 10, 2007 - 06:16 AM

  Zar, the problem is about IE not behaving as specified by standards.
  Nowhere it is said in HTML specs that iframe should only open frames to other sites, and that opening frames to another HTML file situated on the same domain domain or server is not supported.
  
  What I want to do works in firefox, but not IE, probably because of this P3P stuff nobody needs.
  
  MS also modified IE default behavior to not accept http://username:password@site.com anymore, which is a stupid thing in my opinion.
  Another violation of standards.
  
  Thank you for pointing out the obsolete stuff in the includes, I will get rid of that dead weight.
  
  
  
  edited by: manarak, Jan 10, 2007 - 06:19 AM

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• manarak
  
  

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  Posted: Jan 10, 2007 - 11:12 AM

  Problem Solved:
  
  Personofinterest was right and IE accepts to work as expected when a P3P privacy policy is used.
  Thank god, a compact policy is enough.
  
  In index.php (in PN root directory) I inserted
  

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  header("P3P: policyref=\"http://www.mysite.com/w3c/p3p.xml\", CP=\"DSP IDC CUR ADM DELi STP NAV COM UNI INT PHY DEM\"");

  
  just before
  

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  include 'includes/pnAPI.php';

  
  
  and now it works like a charm in both IE and FF.

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