What you want to research are progressive web applications. There are a number of different technologies and browser features related to this topic. The short of it is you convert your PHP to a REST API back end (or similar) and communicate with it using a single page application on the front end.
On Fri, Apr 24, 2020, 10:31 <mbox@xxxxxx> wrote:
I’ve written a PHP script that is served from my host's server that I can access from my computer and/or my phone in a browser. Everything works perfectly.
There is a feature on the iPhone (apparently there’s something similar on Android, too) where I can add the script to the home screen so it functions like an app. Very nice. However, as soon as I click a link to go to any other page of my script, the new page opens in Safari and I lose the full screen goodness of the web app.
So I thought I should change the script from multiple pages to a single page, and just change the content on the main page. However, I can’t figure out how to make that work. I've tried creating a session and loading each “page” by changing a $_SESSION[‘page’] variable, but the session variable doesn’t appear to be global, or I’m doing it wrong. I echo’d that var both before the $content and again afterwards, and only the 2nd one changes - not the first one - so, of course, the content doesn’t change.
Is there a way to do what I’m trying to do? Or am I going about it the wrong way? How can I make this script work as a web app on my phone?
Thanks,
Frank
