Designing a Web Interface

Good Morning:

I’ve set up a PostgreSQL database on my Red Hat Linux 7.3 box. I’m trying to figure out how to put together a web page to administer records in the database. I’d like my web site to behave in the manner of a software application where the page itself is updated when I submit changes, and I don’t have to go to a new page to see the change, and then click to get back to the main page.

From my experience with HTML, I understand I can use frames and a target=<frame name> to make an html page appear in a particular frame. From reading through PHP, in order to get it to work, you usually make the .php page the target, and this leaves me in the strange position that I can’t direct where the output of the page should go.

I’m curious if someone has implemented this type of layout, or if any has some pointers on where I might be able to do some further reading. Any pointers to examples would also be really appreciated.

Thanks for your time.

- Michael