Re: [PHP-EVANGELISM] client side

[email protected] (Tim Broddin) Wed, 05 Feb 2003 18:50:22 +0100
Newsgroups	php.evangelism
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
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


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: [email protected]
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Gabor Hojtsy [mailto:[email protected]] 
>>Sent: Thursday, 6 February 2003 1:09 AM
>>To: [email protected]
>>Cc: Derick Rethans; Pete; [email protected]
>>Subject: Re: [PHP-EVANGELISM] client side
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>>>Client-side PHP isn't that bad idea! Not sure how 
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>>ActiveScript works. 
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>>>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?
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>>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...
>>
>>Goba
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