designing page with frames - how to ?

[scmcscohcl]

Hello ,
As a follow up on my current assignment at work, I have this question to very one.

I need to come up with a web page that provides user with some options where by he/she can select a particular choice. Based on the choices some data will be displayed.

I thought of putting up a web page with two frames; one to provide / collect user choices ; while the other will dsiplay data based on these choices. First frame can be on left hand side while second one on right hand side; only second should refersh every time user selects some thing different.

Does any one know how to go about in doing this in PHP ?

TIA,
RAM

[PHP-Editors_com]

Doesn't sound like a job for PHP - you could just use HTML for this. I sugget you run a search on 'building html frames' or something. If a user click 'about us' (on the left frame) then a new HTML pages called aboutus.htm is loaded into the right frame - is this the type of thing?

[adamgeorge]

Well, you could use php if any data processing was required, and you had to post the results back to the user.

In that case... go ahead. But... don't use frames! lol. You may as well learn good habits early. Frames = bad 🙂

Well... I'm half kidding here. Use them for your assignment if you like, but if you ever do any substantial web development work, I wouldn't recomment using frames.

Anway... in HTML there are various form controls you can use as well as many other interactive elements to let your users intereact with your webpage. There's no problems that you can do this in php... first you gotta work out what you want to do. Once you know exactly what data and elements are going to be on your site, then you can go about implementing it. In which case there are squillions of tutorials on using php to do stuff like you just described.

so... have fun. You gotta do some research... or you'll never learn 😉

cya
-Adam 🙂