Starting point for website construction with embedded php

[fangorn]

Hi,

I am stuck at the beginning of a private project.

I want to setup a private website with embedded php services in a constant look and feel.

I want a header with a selection menu for the desired services, about page,... and below a switching area containing the php services. The services I would like to include are a wordpress blog service, a gallery2 picture database and a webmail frontend maybe. All are php services.

Now I am fighting with the integration itself. Design unification will come later.

I would rather not use iframes, but I did not have any luck with php include or ssi in getting this services embedded. I know there is a function to embed gallery2 funcitions to other applications, but AFAIK that is for single functions and not the whole gallery software. I would like my users being able to log into the site as if it would be solely surfable. I even tried iframes once, but the websites do not find their files.

I am stuck. I dont know where to start reading. I googled my whole free time for the last two weeks, but I am still stuck.

Could someone here please point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance for any hints,
fangorn
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[josko]

If ya don't wanna use iframes, but wanna use the PHP pages...
I'd say use AJAX.

You can call the php pages with AJAX like they where solo, get the output = HTML back and parse it somewhere.
Think it'll help you.

www.w3schools.com/ajax

(Btw, POST data goes trough a query string. just that you know )

[fangorn]

Looks like heavy reading, but I asked for it

Thanks for the hint.
fangorn
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