Re: [PHP] php <-> js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-29 Thread tedd
At 4:54 AM -0500 4/29/06, Richard Lynch wrote: But trying to force JS <-> PHP communication the way you are describing it is only going to make you very unhappy in the long run. Been to that dance more than once. But, as Dirty Harry once said "A man's got to know his limitations." Thanks fo

Re: [PHP] php <-> js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-29 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, April 27, 2006 6:39 pm, tedd wrote: > At 1:57 PM -0700 4/27/06, Paul Novitski wrote: > variable to js and will cause js to execute. But, isn't there > anything else? Is that all there is? That's all there is unless you really want to chew up all your HTTP connctions with a hell of a lot o

Re: [PHP] php <-> js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-28 Thread tedd
At 5:54 PM -0700 4/27/06, Paul Novitski wrote: At 04:39 PM 4/27/2006, tedd wrote: What I don't get is how php can pass variables to js and cause it to run "at will". Do you mean the way one function can call another function within the same program? No, I realize that php are two different

Re: [PHP] php <-> js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 04:39 PM 4/27/2006, tedd wrote: What I don't get is how php can pass variables to js and cause it to run "at will". Do you mean the way one function can call another function within the same program? It sounds like you're picturing PHP & JavaScript executing continuously & simultaneously

Re: [PHP] php <-> js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 19:39, tedd wrote: > At 1:57 PM -0700 4/27/06, Paul Novitski wrote: > > >>Okay, I understand how js and html can communicate with php -- but, > >>that's not the problem. My statement above was part of a > >>symmetrical requirement regarding communication. > > > >Sorry -- "s

Re: [PHP] php <-> js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-27 Thread tedd
At 1:57 PM -0700 4/27/06, Paul Novitski wrote: Okay, I understand how js and html can communicate with php -- but, that's not the problem. My statement above was part of a symmetrical requirement regarding communication. Sorry -- "symmetrical"? Please elucidate, I'm not familiar with this t

Re: [PHP] php <-> js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10:33 AM 4/27/2006, tedd wrote: Can js cycle reading cookies waiting for something to do while php crons writing them as needed -- and vise-versa? Is that a viable method of communication and activation between the two? At 01:57 PM 4/27/2006, Paul Novitski wrote: No, because cookie value

Re: [PHP] php <-> js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 10:33 AM 4/27/2006, tedd wrote: At 9:18 AM -0700 4/27/06, Paul Novitski wrote: I believe you're seeing monsters in the closet where there are only rumpled socks. I'm not trying to see, or create monsters, I'm just trying to understand. Sorry, that was my attempt to be light-hearted and d

Re: [PHP] php <-> js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-27 Thread Robert Cummings
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 13:33, tedd wrote: > At 9:18 AM -0700 4/27/06, Paul Novitski wrote: > > Okay, I understand how js and html can communicate with php -- but, > that's not the problem. My statement above was part of a symmetrical > requirement regarding communication. Communication need not b

Re: [PHP] php <-> js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-27 Thread tedd
At 9:18 AM -0700 4/27/06, Paul Novitski wrote: I believe you're seeing monsters in the closet where there are only rumpled socks. I'm not trying to see, or create monsters, I'm just trying to understand. To me, what's needed to combine these two languages successfully is simply communication

Re: [PHP] php <-> js (was Javascript Navigation)

2006-04-27 Thread Paul Novitski
At 08:03 AM 4/27/2006, tedd wrote: Forgive me my simplicity, but trying to tie communication between php with javascript is like trying to get the past and future to talk to each other -- they exist at different times. Normally, php is history when js steps on the stage and while js may say a f