passing data from non-frameset to frameset

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passing data from non-frameset to frameset

skipperc

8:31 pm on Mar 19, 2003 (gmt 0)

This is a project for a medium volume site.

Presently, <snip> 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?

I don't do much more than PERL hacking, so you know. I consider myself more a web designer than a webmaster.

[edited by: korkus2000 at 12:24 am (utc) on Mar. 20, 2003]
[edit reason] No specifics or URLs please [/edit]

korkus2000

1:02 am on Mar 21, 2003 (gmt 0)

I would either use cookies or use session variables since you mentioned asp. Session variables can be taxing on the system since you will be reading and writing a lot. I guess either ASP cookies or js cookies would be best.