RE: [PHP] JavaScript/PHP Function -> Apache/IIS5 -> Client Properties

Hm...I'm not sure I completely understand...but I believe that you're trying to gather as many stats from the client as possible? What about having a page that is somewhat transparent to the user (if they support JS) that you have something like this... <script> function GetProperties() { document.theform.cVersion.value = navigator.appVersion; etc... document.theform.submit(); } </script> <body onLoad="GetProperties()"> <form action="mainpage.php" method="POST" name="theform"> <input type="hidden" name="cVersion"> </form> <img src="/img/a/nice/techno/dancing/woman.gif"><br> <b>Welcome to my beautiful site! One moment please...</b> </body> Then you'd have mainpage.php checkthrough all those values, and possibly dump them into a DB and create a SESSIONID which each page thereafter uses the sessionid to lookup the client settings from the db and build the page based upon that? Depending on how long it takes to set all the hidden fields and submit the form, it might even be transparent to the user...or...you might just have a generic front page if no session id is set and popup window that has all that java script and say something line "Customizing for YOU!" and then have that page POST to itself and then have the window close it self (and you've set a cookie with the session id of course) so then each page that he visits thereafter has the session id set. And you can customize for him/her... Cheers, -Jonathan Sharp Director of Technology - Imprev Inc. Renwick Development Group - Flyerware http://www.flyerware.com/ Phone: (425)688-9200 Cell: (425)766-1398 EPage: 4257661398@page.nextel.com -----Original Message----- From: [ rswfire ] [mailto:rswfire@hotmail.com] Sent: Saturday, January 27, 2001 5:25 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] JavaScript/PHP Function -> Apache/IIS5 -> Client Properties I need to get a whole bunch of client properties from a visitor on my site before a page is displayed. I do this using JavaScript. I first determine if the visitor's browser supports JavaScript, and if it does I run a function that basically builds a temporary page and returns a bunch of client properties for me. Here's the code: if ($Browser_JavaScriptOK == TRUE) { echo "<HTML>"; echo "<HEAD>"; echo "<TITLE>[ Swift eNetwork ] eNetWizard : Determining Client Properties</TITLE>"; echo "<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=\"JavaScript\">"; echo "function GetProperties()"; echo "{"; echo "window.location.replace(\"http://".$GLOBALS["HTTP_HOST"].$GLOBALS["SCRIPT_N AME"]."?ENETWIZARD_GETCLIENT=TRUE&cName=\"+escape(navigator.appName)+\"&cCod eName=\"+escape(navigator.appCodeName)+\"&cVersion=\"+escape(navigator.appVe rsion)+\"&cPlatform=\"+escape(navigator.platform)+\"&cLanguage=\"+escape(nav igator.language)+\"&cJavaEnabled=\"+escape(navigator.javaEnabled())+\"&cAvai lHeight=\"+escape(screen.availHeight)+\"&cAvailWidth=\"+escape(screen.availW idth)+\"&cColorDepth=\"+escape(screen.colorDepth)+\"&cHeight=\"+escape(scree n.height)+\"&cWidth=\"+escape(screen.width)+\"&cPixelDepth=\"+escape(screen. pixelDepth));"; echo "}"; echo "</SCRIPT>"; echo "</HEAD>"; echo "<BODY BGCOLOR='#000000' OnLoad=\"GetProperties()\">&nbsp;"; echo "</BODY>"; echo "</HTML>"; exit; } This code is run and then goes back to the calling page with all of the variables. I then process the variables and put them into a class and build the page. This works on IIS5, but when I try to do this on Apache, it freezes up and after a time comes back with an error message saying PHP.EXE did something wrong and will be closed. Can anyone tell me what is happening? Do you know of any other way to reliably return client properties? Thankz... _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net