Re: Upload Progress Meter - what's the latest?

On Tue, April 25, 2006 9:23 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: > Richard Lynch wrote: >> On Tue, April 25, 2006 5:28 pm, D. Dante Lorenso wrote: >> >>> Everything PHP returns from a server is "client side", so your >>> >> Oh yeah. I forgot to say... >> The above presumption is patently false. >> > > Let me clarify: Assuming client/server architecture, if PHP is on the > server side then something else needs to be on the client side to > interpret the output of the PHP server. That output is what PHP > returns > and it is interpreted and rendered on the client side by definition. > > Alternatively: If it is not meant for the client to receive, it is > not > (should not) be output by PHP. Guess I'd better throw away all my command-line scripts and cron jobs, and all my PHP GTK half-finished projects, and... Plus, all the times I've got a web page that initiates some asynchronous process and outputs only a tiny fraction of its output to the browser, while generating a GREAT DEAL of output elsewhere. :-) Maybe we're just posting at cross-purposes here, but PHP does a hell of a lot more than spit out HTML web pages... -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm