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They all refer to my style of working only (apart from other professional skills you can read about in my profile I have developed large documentation and data analysis suites [WAMP, LAMP, MAMP] for handling special types of medical documentation), but if you find yourself in a similar timely condition, this situation may be similar to your own mindset:
Obstacle #1: Ready-made solutions for the implementation of grids such as Bootstrap or Flexbox can be done as well, but using their CSS and JS files often needs a lot of individual adaptation if you want to have sizes, shapes, and colours your way.
Obstacle #2: I personally prefer to experiment in a small, easy to conceive setting before embedding my solution into a bigger structure such as Bootstrap and Flexbox (and possibly others, too).
Obstacle #3: I simply do not have the time to sit in front of the screen for hours and hours to check out some layout stuff when I dearly need to get data analyses and evaluations done.
Thus, after experimenting with WampServer on my localhost, I have found the following solution:
<?php
// Same lots of definitions and introductory stuff, again not relevant here
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="whatever">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=<?= strtolower($CHARSET) ?>" />
<meta name="date" content="<?= date('r', filectime($_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'])) ?>" />
<title><?= $sCompanyName ?></title>
</head>
<div>
<iframe style="top:0px; width:100%; height:40px; border:2px red; background-color:grey; display:block; position:fixed;" id="headerTitle" name="headerTitle" scrolling="no" frameborder="1" marginheight="0px" marginwidth="0px" src="frameHeader.php" /></iframe>
</div>
<div>
<iframe style="top:40px; width:100%; height:120px; border:2px red; background-color:grey; display:block; position:fixed;" id="frameMenu" name="frameMenu" scrolling="no" frameborder="1" marginheight="0px" marginwidth="0px" src="frameMenu.php" /></iframe>
</div>
<?php
if (isset($_REQUEST['sBody']) && $_REQUEST['sBody'] == 'login')
echo '<iframe name="frameBody" src="login.php' . $sLanguageString . '">';
else {
?>
<div style="float:left;">
<iframe style="top:160px; width:225px; height:100%; border:2px blue; background-color:grey; display:inline-block; position:fixed;" id="userMenu" name="userMenu" scrolling="yes" frameborder="1" marginheight="0px" marginwidth="0px" src="userMenu.php" /></iframe>
</div>
<div>
<iframe style="top:160px; left:225px; width:100%; height:100%; border:2px blue; background-color:lightgrey; display:inline-block; position:fixed;" id="frameBody" name="frameBody" scrolling="yes" frameborder="1" marginheight="0px" marginwidth="0px" src="<?= $sBody . (strlen($sURLParameterString) > 1 ? $sURLParameterString : '') ?>" allowfullscreen /></iframe>
</div>
<div style="float:right;">
<iframe style="top:160px; right:0px; width:225px; height:100%; border:2px blue; background-color:grey; display:inline-block; position:fixed;" id="patientMenu" name="patientMenu" scrolling="yes" frameborder="1" marginheight="0px" marginwidth="0px" src="patientMenu.php" /></iframe>
</div>
<div>
<iframe style="bottom:0px; width:100%; height:40px; border:2px red; background-color:grey; display:block; position:fixed;" id="footerTitle" name="footerTitle" scrolling="no" frameborder="1" marginheight="0px" marginwidth="0px" src="frameFooter - Kopie.php" /></iframe>
</div>
<?php
}
?>
</html>
Please mind that, of course, it is a good if not essential step to cast thestyle="whatever" statements into an external CSS file, but this is not necessary here to show you what I mean.
It is important not to change thename="something" statements from frames to iframes as they are needed for the referral of, for instance, a menu link referring to the above-mentioned code withframeBody (see there):
[... preceding code ...]
<li><a target="frameBody" href="dothis.php">Do this</a></li>
<li><a target="frameBody" href="dothat.php">Do that</a></li>
<li><a target="frameBody" href="dosomethingcompletelydifferent.php">Do something completely different</a></li>
[... further code ...]
Theallowfullscreen is just an optional element in case one of these iframes should be made fullscreen using an appropriate javascript code (not supplied here).
And, finally, the change of both<!DOCTYPE ...> and<html ...> corresponds to being able to make use of HTML 5 instead of the older HTML 4 declaration which had to refer to a DTD (Document Type Definition).
I hope this bit of code helps in a generic way to root from HTML framesets to HTML iframes on the way to a frameless solution as next possible step.
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