Parsing variable from frame A to frame B

[Anon]

I've got a little problem with a webpage I am building in PHP. Since I just started working with PHP, I don't have much experience yet, but I hope that someone knows how to take care of my problem.

The thing is as follows: I have got a frameset consisting of two frames, one for the menu and one main frame. In the menu frame I have placed a select, dropdown menu. What I would like it to do is that when an item of the select menu is selected a page will open in the main frame. I managed to get this to work when I use HTML and Javascript, by referring to different HTML pages. But since all these pages are fundamentaly the same, it only needs to include a different data-file and display a different headtitle, I figured it might be effecient to use a template file and customize this with the variable from the selectmenu. So the question now is: how do I parse a variable that is set in the menu frame to the main frame?

Thanks in advance for your replies, Michiel

[Anon]

there are MANY ways to do this
1 use the same javascript but instead of having the entire URL in the select just have the variable and tag it on to the end of a standard URL using
?variable=variablevalue notation this works best if you are using an onChange Javascript
2 a little less uneversally compatable but ezer use onChange=submit() and have the form post to the other fram
3 probably the EZest to understand ;-) simply where you would put the URL in that select before, put the URL as follows:
http://www.yourdomain.com/yourfile.php?variablename=variablevalur

and I assure you there are many other ways to procede 🙂

Travis Harris