Re: Designing a Web Interface

You do nothing special in the PHP page. It loads where you instructed the
browser to load it. The only thing you need to specify in the html you send
to the browser is the 'target' for future pages. If you want to learn more
about frames, search google and you will find tons of reference sites.

Michael J. Upchurch
Partner2Partner Communications mike(at)partner2partner(dot)com 615.286.2199

mmcgillick writes:

> Good Morning:
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> I've set up a PostgreSQL database on my Red Hat Linux 7.3 box. I'm
> trying to figure out how to put together a web page to administer
> records in the database. I'd like my web site to behave in the manner of
> a software application where the page itself is updated when I submit
> changes, and I don't have to go to a new page to see the change, and
> then click to get back to the main page.
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> From my experience with HTML, I understand I can use frames and a
> target=<frame name> to make an html page appear in a particular frame.
> From reading through PHP, in order to get it to work, you usually make
> the .php page the target, and this leaves me in the strange position
> that I can't direct where the output of the page should go.
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> I'm curious if someone has implemented this type of layout, or if any
> has some pointers on where I might be able to do some further reading.
> Any pointers to examples would also be really appreciated.
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> Thanks for your time.
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> - Michael
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