On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Richard Lynch wrote: > Ed Curtis wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Feb 2005, Richard Lynch wrote: > >> > >> In honor of our recent Super Bowl, here is a slow-motion instant replay: > >> > >> Bob: "Well, it's a great day so far for PHP today, isn't it Jim?" > >> Jim: "You've got that right, Bob! Now let's check out this play." > >> Bob: "Watch as the user surfs right to that web page!" > >> Jim: "Yeah, smooth!" > >> Bob: "Then, Apache detects the .php in the URL and hands off the action > >> to > >> PHP!" > >> Jim: "PHP has been really strong today, hasn't it?" > >> Bob: "Sure has, Jim!" > >> Jim: "Then, PHP builds up some HTML and JavaScript and sends it out!" > >> Bob: "Yeah, and then PHP says 'Job Done.'" > >> Jim: "You've got that right, Bob! PHP is outta the game for now, > >> resting." > >> Bob: "Now watch carefully as the user interacts with the browser." > >> Jim: "Pay particular attention as they change items in the filelist > >> box." > >> Bob: "Oooooh! What a fumble!!!" > >> Jim: "Yeah, it's definitely much too late to be handing off to PHP!" > >> Bob: "Sure is, Jim. PHP has been out of the game now for awhile!" > >> > >> Copyright Richard Lynch and the NFL. > >> Unauthorized re-broadcast is a violation of Federal Law. > > > > Your comments are quite funny but wouldn't it have been alot easier to > > say that you can't call a PHP function within a generated HTML element? > > You can however use the onChange event to call another PHP script that > > will perform the function. Not nearly as many keystrokes :) > > The other 237 times I've answered this question, the reader doesn't > understand *WHY* they can't do that unless it's broken down into a > slow-motion instant replay of server-side versus client-side. > > And if they don't understand *THAT*, they are going to have troubles down > the road with Cookies, HTTP Authentication, scraping from SSL sites, > sessions, and probably a couple other PHP topics. > > I'd rather get them thinking about this now than answer a dozen more > questions all stemming from a fundamental lack of understanding of the > interaction of browser, server, and PHP. YMMV > > I know *I* didn't get this until somebody was kind enough to build a > diagram of what happens in an HTTP exchange. It's in the archives (about > 6 years back, mind you...) > > So I typed Jim, Bob and "" a lot, and a couple extra lines for fun. > [shrug] I type fast anyway. :-) > Sorry I started this. I didn't mean for it to become another "kid caught using PHP" thread. Ed -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
