I'm not quite sure what you mean... If Javascript were disabled then this whole argument would be moot. Since our method requires Javascript to properly function we're really not interested in that particular situation. :)
There are two ways a PHP script (or any scripting language for that matter) can send input to a Javascript. One, by dynamically generating a local Javascript with the lines of code necessary to perform a certain task. Two, by sending information through the URL string to a remote Javascript which runs functions based on that information. Classic Input/Output. It doesn't matter where the input is coming from so long as the program gets what is expecting. So in this sense the two unrelated programs (one server side, one client side) are communicating, just not directly. Bottom line is the method works so I don't understand what there is to debate. See here for a working example.... http://www.helpelf.com/fetch_data.html It's not very sophisticated yet (all the junk left in the URL, et al). But it does what I'm talking about. You can copy & paste this Javascript into any web page and it'll return the same database information gathered by the PHP script. -Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2002 4:27 PM To: Kevin Stone Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PHP] Calling Javascript-function from php-script ... »Kevin Stone« sagte am 2002-03-19 um 14:11:42 -0700 : > Not entirely true. Javascript is directly linked to HTML and HTML is > directly linked to PHP so you can have PHP talk to Javascript through > HTML. I still don't agree. You can of course create JavaScripts dynamically in PHP. However, PHP won't talk to JS, it's the browser which will execute the dynamically created JS and then maybe talk back to the server and thus execute some PHP code. This may seem like nitpicking, but I don't think it is. If PHP were to execute the JS, it would work even when the user had disabled JS in his browser. Alexander Skwar -- How to quote: http://learn.to/quote (german) http://quote.6x.to (english) Homepage: http://www.iso-top.de | Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] iso-top.de - Die günstige Art an Linux Distributionen zu kommen Uptime: 2 days 12 hours 18 minutes -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
