Re: client side

Totally not stupid, I really hate the mindswitching between two different languages (PHP/Javascript) when creating a website. If you see how fast Flash was adopted by the world I think the PHP team should really try it! On 5/02/2003 19:50, Maxim Maletsky wrote:

Tim Broddin <sirpsycho@fuckhedz.com> wrote... :

Couldn't we made some sort of PHP extension so we could write PHP code intended for the client-side and PHP would transform that into valid JavaScript? example: a file (example.php) on the server: <html> <head> <title><? echo 'Test'; ?></title> <script language = "PHP" runat="client">

    $answer = clientprompt('Do you like this?');
    if ($answer == 'yes') {
       clientalert('Oh yeah!');
    } else {
        clientalert('Damn!');
    }

</script> </head> </html> woult be outputed to the client as: <html> <head> <title>Test</title> <script language = "JavaScript">

    var answer;
    answer = prompt('Do you like this?');
    if (answer == 'yes') {
       alert('Oh yeah!');
    } else {
        alert('Damn!');
    }

</script> </head> </html> Stupid example and probably stupid idea

Well, a few hundred years ago there were people thinking that trains are devils and humans will never "fly". Anyhow, what I am thinking is something like a browser plug-in for PHP, so PHP itself can be used similar to JavaScript. Of course, for very long time this will not be called a good idea to add PHPScript in your static geocities pages hoping that every browser will read it. Mostly intranet/extranet projects would use it to avoid executing too much over the server while still keeping the same development team. However, should this work well - it can have a good success. At the end, there is PHP-GTK, which by itself is a "different way" using PHP. Why not having PHPScript, comaptible, easily installable for various browsers etc... ? Probably stupid, but a hot dream! -- Maxim Maletsky maxim@php.net

On 5/02/2003 18:37, Timothy Hitchens (HiTCHO) wrote:

Clients wouldn't have to install if we look at the IE under windows market and simply supply as an auto install activeX just like flash and remember that the biggest market for this type of functionality would be in the intranet/extranet mostly closed network where people want more flexibility for computations on the client. Great for messaging/graphing direct database calls etc etc Security would be an issue as most of the plug-in type situations need to have authority to talk directly to the hard drive. Firewalls would be an issue for any database calls etc Timothy Hitchens (HiTCHO) Web Application Consulting e-mail: tim@hitcho.com.au

-----Original Message----- From: Gabor Hojtsy [mailto:gabor@hojtsy.hu] Sent: Thursday, 6 February 2003 1:09 AM To: maxim@php.net Cc: Derick Rethans; Pete; php-evangelism@lists.php.net Subject: Re: [PHP-EVANGELISM] client side

       
Client-side PHP isn't that bad idea! Not sure how     
         
ActiveScript works.   
       
I never had to work with it. Something like you can output the PHP code and it gets executed on Client's Browser? Something JavaScript-like?
    
         
Absolutely. There are also other script interpreters working this way (ActivePerl for example), but there is actually no point in using this on the net, as nobody will install PHPScript to his client (or very few client will have it). VBScript was the same situation...

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