heh, my first thought was to suggest php-gtk <g> you are right, I see this question on asp lists all the time.. :)
-- ======================================================================= Michael J. Ryan - tracker1[*at*]theroughnecks.com Roughneck BBS: http://www.theroughnecks.net telnet://theroughnecks.net ======================================================================= Y!: aztracker1 - aim: azTracker1 - icq: 4935386 - msn: see email One program for aim/icq/yahoo/msn/irc - http://www.trillian.cc/ "Mark Charette" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > This is a common question, related to the lack of understanding of > client/server architectures I believe. > > PHP is all server side - a browser is all client side. > > Servers can send data only to the browser, nothing else. The server can > inquire and gather data from text files and databases, but it will format > the data into a particular protocol (HTTP most often) and send it to the > browser. The data may even include lines of text from a language that the > browser understands, like JavaScript. Or it might be XML data and the > corresponding XSLT instructions. But ... it can't affect the browser > directly. Only the embedded instructions that the browser understands can > actually affect anything on the browser. > > The browser looks at the stream of data provided by the server and decides > on-the-fly what to do with it. If it sees JavaScript instructions, it may > decide to interpret them and do some particular action. Or it may decide > that it doesn't want to play with JavaScript today and just ignore them. It > may see the XML/XSLT and decide to do something - but it doesn't have to. > This, of couse, is the bane of Web programmers everywhere. What does the > browser understand, and what does it do with the data. > > PHP allows us to write programs eaisy on the server to make some decisions > on what to send a browser, but it cannot act directly on the browser. We > must depend (somehow) on the browser interpreting what we tell it and then > acting in a particular way. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Wong [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, June 23, 2002 12:17 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [PHP] is there a function like javascript's window.open in > PHP > > > On Sunday 23 June 2002 07:21, Burak Delice wrote: > > hi, > > > > I wonder that is there a PHP function like window.open() into Javascript? > > No. > > -- > Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk > Open Source Software Systems Integrators > * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * > > /* > One thought driven home is better than three left on base. > */ > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
