php and frames

[rulian]

I have a page which has iframes in it that has to display information from a data base. I want to reduce the amount of queries neccessary, but in order to do that the main page has to let other pages in it's iframes to execute the same php functions they themselves did not load,

is it possible to pass function and variables through frame pages without post or get?

[sarahk]

you could always load the query strings (the $sql stuff) into a session array and as they are run change a flag, delete them from the array etc. Then as each iframe loads, they start the session and check for an un-run query.

does that make sense.

the only risk is that 2 might run the same query so maybe each iframe could "know" which to run if they had a sense of who they are - ie hardcoded in the iframe script, passed as a get (which I know you are trying to avoid).

Maybe think about this for a bit, and post further ideas for us to play around with. What type of queries are you running, what happens afterwards?