Re: [PHP] PHP Reference

On Aug 14, 2010, at 5:19 AM, Ashley Sheridan wrote:

> On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 01:57 -0500, Karl DeSaulniers wrote:
>>
>> That is what I thought.
>> Thank you for confirming.
>>
>> Karl
>>
>>
>> On Aug 14, 2010, at 1:54 AM, Peter Lind wrote:
>>
>> > On 14 August 2010 08:08, Karl DeSaulniers <[email protected]>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Hello all,
>> >> I was wondering, can you reference php in a url string like you  
>> can
>> >> javascript.
>> >> EG:
>> >> "javascript:someFunction()"
>> >>
>> >> Can you do something similar in php like
>> >>
>> >> "php:someFunction()"
>> >>
>> >> I am thinking that you can not do this, but was wondering if there
>> >> was
>> >> something like that.
>> >> Thanks,
>> >
>> > No, you can't.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > Peter
>> >
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>> Karl DeSaulniers
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>>
>>
>
> The reason you can't is because PHP is on the server and Javascript  
> is local (e.g. the browser).
>
> Even if the PHP code you're executing is through localhost, because  
> PHP needs the server to run, it has to be run on the server, and  
> exposing functions directly like this would expose all sorts of  
> security issues (imagine calling up a getUserDetails() on a website  
> you're not logged into for example, which would mean every function  
> of a system would need some sort of user auth check and would slow  
> the whole thing to a crawl)
>
> Thanks,
> Ash
> http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
>
>


I see. Very good point. Thanks Ash.
I figured it was because of the whole pre-processing part of PHP.
Thanks for the explination.
Best,

Karl DeSaulniers
Design Drumm
http://designdrumm.com