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Yes.. another "How do I rid myself of frames" ques

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:00 am
by bogged
People.. apologies if this has been done 203948230948209340239403298 times in the past.. But I have searched the archives before posting but I have not found exactly what I want to know.
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I want to get rid of frames
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1) Have been dabbling in HTML for while so understand a few things.
2) Never seen a PHP. Its like a UFO?
3) Want to create a new page for my club with the appearance of frames. Have been told PHP is the best way to go for this... once its done I'll re-do my page.

EG
- top header which wont change with each page.
- left 'frame' with the navi buttons which wont change with each page.
- main section with the info in it which WILL change when the navi buttons are wacked.
- footer (maybe if it isnt too hard)

I have tried to follow the Roddefig tutorial
(http://www.garnetchaney.com/how_to_use_ ... ames.shtml)
but it didnt work for me.. No idea why.

Anyway, I have my trial page sorta happening
http://www.gqpatrol.com//php_trial/
(The bit I want in the middle is at the bottom.
The index file is just 4 includes
- header.php
- left.php
- main.php
- footer.php
No table or anything.
:(
...but it appears to need to be in a table. I cannot figure out how or where the table should be coded..

Anyone know of a SIMPLE EXAMPLE site that is as I described, that I can just view the code for and learn from that, then do it myself???

Any one help a poor old fool?

Thanks for your time.
Bogged...

Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:13 am
by malcolmboston
in regards to THIS IS SHOULD BE UP THERE SOMEWHERE INLINE WITH HISTORY

in the td holder that is held in use

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<td valign=&quote;top&quote;>
also as a side note, i think you have been somewhat misinformed on why you should choose PHP, granted PHP can create "generic" areas of your site for seamless integration however, this is completely missing the point of PHP.

if you dont want to learn a server-side language (as if your not confident with HTML yet you should leave PHP alone) use dreamweavers library or template features to create a perfect layout that fits with the design of the rest of your site. alternatively create a basic page and copy and paste all the source code into future files only editing the content

note to other PHP'ers: sorry for not recommending him for learning PHP but i feel the reasons he has been given do not justify it, PHP is designed to do much more complex functions such as form handling, image generation, file functionality etc, not making a page consistent, PHP is not what he needs and is way overblow for what is needed here and therefore i have not recommended him to it.