I am very new to php and have no idea how to do what I would like to do, or even if I can.
I would like to have a web page were the menu and the main content are each in there own iframes, and when some one clicks a menu item it will ether refresh the main content with new data leaving the same menu, or refresh the menu with a new menu leaving the main content the same.
I am thinking that would require javascript but I don't know any more javascript then I do php yet.
So any idea on how I could do this or is it even possible to do this.
( I know that using php I could simply hard code a ton includes in with with a bunch of if statements that would load "Modules" so to speak. those modules would then act as the new html pages each one having a menu and a main content, but that would be way to complicated for what I want to mess with. and would simpler if I just stuck to normal static html pages.)

also any way to have a form in frame 1 that submits it's data to the page displayed in the same frame and have that frame refresh with the new data taken in to account?
example a chat page for a clan/guild. were the online game they all play is loaded in a gameframe, and the chat is loaded in a chat frame, each frame would have to act as 2 different tabs/windows.. were there would be different session IDs for each and cookies too. to loggin the chatframe would first load a loggin page and then would log the user in, and then refresh the chat frame with the main chat page. with out upsetting the other frame there by keeping the gameframe's SID and such in tact and letting some one login to the chat and the game at the same time with out one messing the other up with a page wide refresh, when the game resets the session on a page wide refresh.

if you read that whole thing thanks, and if you can help me, thanks again