Before you fall of your chairs let me expand on that ... Many of the sites I'm supporting are being chased by the we want your work mob, and being told they "Must have apps to stay in business". Of cause that means both an android and an apple one with a discount on the pair. BUT in most cases a restyling of the existing website to be more mobile/tablet friendly layout is all that is needed. To that end I've finally nailed a configuration of bootstrap3 which will work with my smarty templating and legacy jquery browser side actions. ( Fourth setup I've worked through as previous 'solutions' proved dead ends! )
Very few of us use PHP as a programming language in isolation to anything else? Although that is perhaps not obvious from some of the discussions. Areas like better JSON or HTTP support all fall into the camp of integration with the rest of the infrastructure? Something which is now totally different to what existed when PHP5 first came out! Eclipse provides me with a flat workbench where js, css, raw html, php, smarty tpl, sql, and even c/c++ all co-exist and the right highlighting and support tools are provided. Javascript is the obvious choice for browser side programming, and browser side templates like bootstrap rely on it to make elements of the layout work, and PHP is more than happy feeding that functionality, but trying to maintain two different languages between the two ends is perhaps not ideal? Am I totally mad thinking that a tool that converts perhaps a lite version of PHP into Javascript might plug a hole in the infrastructure? Parts like validation beyond what html5 has added is one I've just hit where the original site passed form data back to the server and pushed validation errors back, so we have the specialist bits in php already. But while html5 validation does some of the job, some javascript will be needed to fill the gaps ... with a fall back to PHP for non-html5 browsers. Perhaps something does already exist that I'm missing? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
