On Friday 29 April 2005 07:08, Mark Cain wrote: > What a mess this has turned out to be -- But perhaps you can help me. > > I have a dynamic site that pulls headers, navigation, and footers from text > files. The content for the pages is pulled from mySQL. > > On each page I have a JavaScript rotating banner that displays "Upcoming > Events." The banners rotate about every 4 seconds without the need for a > page refresh. The names of the individual banners themselves are fed into > JavaScript from a PHP script that reads a folder of JPG files and makes a > decision as to which ones to show (i.e. pass to the JavaScript). > > This all works and it's slick seeing that I have the difficulty of dealing > with a server side script and a client script. The browser calls a > JavaScript file which has a php extension. When the server "sees" the php > extension the file is executed before it is delivered to the browser. > Since JavaScript complains about PHP functions in that file that file > merely echo back standard JavaScript and calls another php file via > require() that does the low level work of reading the folder and reporting > back the JavaScript arrays. Graphically it looks like this: > > 1) the Page calls the header > 2) the header calls > 3) a php generated JavaScript file which calls > 4) a php file that reads the folder on the server and > builds the JavaScript arrays > > > Now I need to add a feature and I am bumping my head on this one. > > How do I report the file name of the file that called the header in # 4 ? > In other words, I want the name of #1 to be reported in #4. If I use > $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"], that variable reports the name of #4. It gets a > little tricky because #3 is called from within a JavaScript tag. > > Got any suggestions? Pass the JavaScript to the client using a new header: Content-Type: application/x-javascript > > Mark Cain -- Cyberly yours, Petar Nedyalkov Devoted Orbitel Fan :-) PGP ID: 7AE45436 PGP Public Key: http://bu.orbitel.bg/pgp/bu.asc PGP Fingerprint: 7923 8D52 B145 02E8 6F63 8BDA 2D3F 7C0B 7AE4 5436
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