With my brief foray into ASP.NET for a previous job, I remember "postback" being a conglomeration of junk code that it used to POST data back to the server and may have been kinda AJAXy in nature. The forms in ASP.NET tended to do stuff like convert from a static text string to a INPUT field when you clicked the edit button and would save and revert back to static text when you clicked the "save" or "cancel" buttons. Of course the static <-> INPUT switch could be done with simple javascript stuff, but the saving the data back to the server without refreshing the page is an AJAX type deal. Another buzz word associated with ASP.NET that might help is "datagrid". Just an interactive table of data, but tend to have postback functions in them for editing, sorting, column rearranging, etc. Not exactly the same as ASP.NET's implementation, but if you search for "php datagrid" you'll find some examples. Including this one: http://www.scriptsearch.com/cgi-bin/jump.cgi?ID=3710 Just tossing some thoughts out there that might help lead to a solution. All depends on exactly what's needed. If you want persistant states carried through page changes, want AJAX style data submission without reloading pages, etc. These might be some of the key words to search for. -TG = = = Original message = = = Maybe he's talking about the ability to post data to a website, like using PHP to simulate a user submitting a webpage form. If so, check out curl. On Oct 18, 2006, at 8:00 AM, Miles Thompson wrote: > At 11:48 AM 10/18/2006, M.Sokolewicz wrote: > >> Ross wrote: >>> Looked on google and not found a satisfactory answer. Doies >>> anyone have a funtion to do this? >>> >>> R. >> please explain, in details, what it is you're looking for. >> "postback for php - a function to do this" doesn't mean squat to >> most people. Please EXPLAIN. >> >> - tul > > Yes, not a helpful description. Maybe he means a callback function > which would do something like > echo '<a href="'. $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] .'">Please try again</a>'; > and he may have to pass a variable string. > > M. ___________________________________________________________ Sent by ePrompter, the premier email notification software. Free download at http://www.ePrompter.com. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
