Re: Re: PUT vs. POST (was: php File upload)

tedd wrote: > At 3:50 PM +0100 8/9/08, Richard Heyes wrote: >> > Given that PHP doesn't run on the client, there is no way for >> > anything >>> written in PHP to access anything on the client. >> >>Wouldn't it be fun though if it could? :-) >> >>-- >>Richard Heyes > > In a round about way it can, but it's limited. > No, it cannot. > You see, anything that javascript can discover can be passed to php. > The limits are those limits imposed on javascript. Ah, so you mean that _javascript_ can access something on the client - very true, but javascript!=PHP. Of course PHP can do all sorts if you combine it with javascript, black magic, or what have you, but PHP alone is a server side scripting language, nothing more nor less. /Per Jessen, Zürich