How to setup Frames?

Tuesday 09 September 2003 2:30:19 am

I need to create a frameset with a navigation, head and contentframe.
I know, it is not recommended by eZ to use frames, and I avoid it too, but, as its going, I have to.
But I have no idea how to.
Can someone help me?
Thanks!

Tuesday 09 September 2003 4:35:20 am

We recently built a set that required the use of an iframe. Essentially the iframe (or frame) loads in its own space so you need to careful to ensure each frame has the right url for the task.

There are a couple of tricky bits. Communicating between each frame so that ez knows what is going on is pretty much impossible without using some kind of cookie/javascript combination. At least thats the approach we took for our problem.

The other thing to consider is ez will eat a lot of resources displaying your pages, one httpd resource for each frame you create: ez can only return one page at a time.

Paul

Thursday 22 January 2004 12:34:58 pm

One solution is to make one subdomain, say www.yourdomain.com, for the frameset. And one, say publish.yourdomain.com, for ezpublish.

Then you point the frames to the objects you need in ezpublish.

When I need a menu in e.g. a top-frame, I simply make a fakeobject with no content, make a special "gives-me-the-menu"-template for that node.

Felix

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