passing data from non-frameset to frameset
This is a project for a medium volume ticket brokering site. This post is a rehash of a previous one, here.
Presently, Coast to Coast Tickets (coasttocoasttickets.com) is built entirely in frames -- to accomodate a third-party inventory and commerce system. I want to move it to a partially non-frame based architecture. I plan to do this via SHTML and SSI, still displaying the ticket inventory pages in frames. Maybe ASP, though I don't know much about ASP includes.
My dillemma is this. I want to keep the search box persistent -- read: on all pages. What is the best way to pass the query text from a non-frame to a frameset? Cookies? Javascript? A database?
And then I guess I'd also have to build that frameset too. Geez. This project ... headache.
I don't do much more than PERL hacking, so you know. I consider myself more a web designer than a programmer. Thanks in advance.
Presently, Coast to Coast Tickets (coasttocoasttickets.com) is built entirely in frames -- to accomodate a third-party inventory and commerce system. I want to move it to a partially non-frame based architecture. I plan to do this via SHTML and SSI, still displaying the ticket inventory pages in frames. Maybe ASP, though I don't know much about ASP includes.
My dillemma is this. I want to keep the search box persistent -- read: on all pages. What is the best way to pass the query text from a non-frame to a frameset? Cookies? Javascript? A database?
And then I guess I'd also have to build that frameset too. Geez. This project ... headache.
I don't do much more than PERL hacking, so you know. I consider myself more a web designer than a programmer. Thanks in advance.
