Thanks for the reply. Apologies for the message coming through 3 times, mea culpa....
On Jun 24, 5:43 pm, Ian Bambury <[email protected]> wrote: > BTW, your message has come through three times (so far) > Ian > > http://examples.roughian.com > > 2009/6/24 Ian Bambury <[email protected]> > > > > > You can create all the visual elements in GWT, passing it only the data it > > needs to display, or you can create pretty much all of it in PHP and then > > wrap the elements (e.g. a button) that you want to add functionality to. > > It's entirely up to you. > > A problem you might face is that your current PHP scripts are designed to > > create a new page to replace the previous page, but you should be able to > > get around that by extracting the part you want and using it in your GWT app > > (e.g. not the header and footer and menu and stuff, just get the content you > > want to display). > > > Ian > > >http://examples.roughian.com > > > 2009/6/24 Portal Developer <[email protected]> > > >> Apologies for posting this again, but I don't think it was posted > >> first time round. > > >> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> Hi, > >> Is something like this possible in GWT? > > >> I have an existing portal written by myself in php which contains a > >> huge amount of functionality that has been developed over the last few > >> years. > > >> I would like to continue using this php functionality purely from the > >> business logic and database point of view because I know that it works > >> in php. > >> The bit that I want to change is the user interface. I generate > >> fragments of basic html in my php to display the relevant information > >> but I would now like to view/create this information using GWT. My > >> php also creates some session variables when the user logs in. > > >> I know you can make calls to php scripts from GWT but how complex can > >> this get? Is it possible to call my php from GWT and instead of > >> creating the visual element in php create the visual element in GWT > >> instead. > > >> Does this make sense? I would like to move to the GWT environment but > >> without the overhead of having to rewrite the main functionality in my > >> php. > > >> Any thoughts or ideas on how this might be achieved greatly > >> appreciated. > > >> Thanks,- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Web Toolkit" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
