[PHP] Designer adrift in a sea of code - please point me towards land...
Thanks for everyone's comments its given me a better idea of what php can do. I need a little clarification on what's been said then Ill unsubscribe and never come back I just need to know if this is the kind of thing php can help me with. ... If I understand what you have told me so far it should be possible to fill the content of a layer by issuing some sort of server include¹ command.. (?) So, for example, rather than have a something that looks like this: div id=haiti style=position:absolute; left:752px; top:321px; width:166px; height:162px; z-index:14; visibility: hidden table width=166 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 tr td img src=Atlas/images/photolayer_11.gif width=81 height=55/td td img src=Atlas/images/photolayer_12.gif width=85 height=55/td /tr tr td img src=Atlas/images/photolayer_14.gif width=81 height=53/td td img src=Atlas/images/photolayer_15.gif width=85 height=53/td /tr tr td img src=Atlas/haiti_17.gif width=81 height=55/td td img src=Atlas/haiti_18.gif width=85 height=55/td /tr /table /div It should be possible to have some code that gives the layer position but rather than then having all the other code describing the layer contents, have some sort of php command that says 'get the contents from file xxx.php'. If this is the case what should I be learning about to make this happen? Thanks again, Tim (standing on the shoulders of giants) --- Your question is not stupid - it's just uninformed, and that's easily understandable if you never used PHP. The concept is dynamically creating the page SERVER-SIDE. That is, use some databases or some nifty code to dynamically build a page using specific parameters. Unforunately for you, this means that all the fun ends on the server side. Once PHP ends its job, Apache takes over and serves the content generated by PHP as it would serve any regular file. What you actually pass to the client is dead information - it's not dynamic unless you echo some JavaScript code or something similar from PHP (which is the same as writing the respective code in a regular file, unless you create some custom parameters in JavaScript based on some other parameters you pass to PHP). Hope my explanation makes sense... ;-) Bogdan tim at 10Kv wrote: Hi, first of all apologise to the list this is a very basic question for you I¹m sure. I have tried to find an answer on the web but the problem is knowing HOW to ask the question and I hoping you can provide me with a starting point. Anyway.. I design a lot of graphic intensive pages which rely heavily on layers that contain images, mouseovers and image swaps. The trouble is, when there are more than a couple of these layers on a page the code gets long and over complicated. For example, if I have a page which on one side contains an image map with 5 clickable points that shows one of 5 possible layers on the other side of the page (each with different content) this is automatically a page with lots of code which is slow to load especially if the page already has a layer based navigation bar! My question is: is there a way to use a language like php to make this process easier? For example populate the layers from a different file rather than have all the code on the same page and perhaps slim the page down a little or is this missing the point of what a language like php is about. Thanks for your help and my apologies if this is the worst question of the week. Tim Rogers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Stupid Question Alert - part 2
Thanks for everyone's comments. If I understand what you are saying it should be possible to fill the content of a layer by issuing some sort of server include command.. (?) So, for example, rather than have a something that looks like this: div id=haiti style=position:absolute; left:752px; top:321px; width:166px; height:162px; z-index:14; visibility: hidden table width=166 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 tr td img src=Atlas/images/photolayer_11.gif width=81 height=55/td td img src=Atlas/images/photolayer_12.gif width=85 height=55/td /tr tr td img src=Atlas/images/photolayer_14.gif width=81 height=53/td td img src=Atlas/images/photolayer_15.gif width=85 height=53/td /tr tr td img src=Atlas/haiti_17.gif width=81 height=55/td td img src=Atlas/haiti_18.gif width=85 height=55/td /tr /table /div It should be possible to have some code that gives the layer position but rather than then having all the other code describing the layer contents, have some sort of php command that says 'get the contents from file xxx.php'. If this is the case what should I be learning about to make this happen? Thanks again, Tim (standing on the shoulders of giants) --- Your question is not stupid - it's just uninformed, and that's easily understandable if you never used PHP. The concept is dynamically creating the page SERVER-SIDE. That is, use some databases or some nifty code to dynamically build a page using specific parameters. Unforunately for you, this means that all the fun ends on the server side. Once PHP ends its job, Apache takes over and serves the content generated by PHP as it would serve any regular file. What you actually pass to the client is dead information - it's not dynamic unless you echo some JavaScript code or something similar from PHP (which is the same as writing the respective code in a regular file, unless you create some custom parameters in JavaScript based on some other parameters you pass to PHP). Hope my explanation makes sense... ;-) Bogdan tim at 10Kv wrote: Hi, first of all apologise to the list this is a very basic question for you I¹m sure. I have tried to find an answer on the web but the problem is knowing HOW to ask the question and I hoping you can provide me with a starting point. Anyway.. I design a lot of graphic intensive pages which rely heavily on layers that contain images, mouseovers and image swaps. The trouble is, when there are more than a couple of these layers on a page the code gets long and over complicated. For example, if I have a page which on one side contains an image map with 5 clickable points that shows one of 5 possible layers on the other side of the page (each with different content) this is automatically a page with lots of code which is slow to load especially if the page already has a layer based navigation bar! My question is: is there a way to use a language like php to make this process easier? For example populate the layers from a different file rather than have all the code on the same page and perhaps slim the page down a little or is this missing the point of what a language like php is about. Thanks for your help and my apologies if this is the worst question of the week. Tim Rogers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] ... [PHP] Stupid question alert
Thanks for everyone's comments. If I understand what you are saying it should be possible to fill the content of a layer by issuing some sort of server include command.. (?) So, for example, rather than have a something that looks like this: div id=haiti style=position:absolute; left:752px; top:321px; width:166px; height:162px; z-index:14; visibility: hidden table width=166 border=0 cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 tr td img src=Atlas/images/photolayer_11.gif width=81 height=55/td td img src=Atlas/images/photolayer_12.gif width=85 height=55/td /tr tr td img src=Atlas/images/photolayer_14.gif width=81 height=53/td td img src=Atlas/images/photolayer_15.gif width=85 height=53/td /tr tr td img src=Atlas/haiti_17.gif width=81 height=55/td td img src=Atlas/haiti_18.gif width=85 height=55/td /tr /table /div It should be possible to have some code that gives the layer position but rather than then having all the other code describing the layer contents, have some sort of php command that says 'get the contents from file xxx.php'. If this is the case what should I be learning about to make this happen? Thanks again, Tim (standing on the shoulders of giants) Your question is not stupid - it's just uninformed, and that's easily understandable if you never used PHP. The concept is dynamically creating the page SERVER-SIDE. That is, use some databases or some nifty code to dynamically build a page using specific parameters. Unforunately for you, this means that all the fun ends on the server side. Once PHP ends its job, Apache takes over and serves the content generated by PHP as it would serve any regular file. What you actually pass to the client is dead information - it's not dynamic unless you echo some JavaScript code or something similar from PHP (which is the same as writing the respective code in a regular file, unless you create some custom parameters in JavaScript based on some other parameters you pass to PHP). Hope my explanation makes sense... ;-) Bogdan tim at 10Kv wrote: Hi, first of all apologise to the list this is a very basic question for you I¹m sure. I have tried to find an answer on the web but the problem is knowing HOW to ask the question and I hoping you can provide me with a starting point. Anyway.. I design a lot of graphic intensive pages which rely heavily on layers that contain images, mouseovers and image swaps. The trouble is, when there are more than a couple of these layers on a page the code gets long and over complicated. For example, if I have a page which on one side contains an image map with 5 clickable points that shows one of 5 possible layers on the other side of the page (each with different content) this is automatically a page with lots of code which is slow to load especially if the page already has a layer based navigation bar! My question is: is there a way to use a language like php to make this process easier? For example populate the layers from a different file rather than have all the code on the same page and perhaps slim the page down a little or is this missing the point of what a language like php is about. Thanks for your help and my apologies if this is the worst question of the week. Tim Rogers -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Stupid question alert
Hi, first of all apologise to the list this is a very basic question for you I¹m sure. I have tried to find an answer on the web but the problem is knowing HOW to ask the question and I hoping you can provide me with a starting point. Anyway.. I design a lot of graphic intensive pages which rely heavily on layers that contain images, mouseovers and image swaps. The trouble is, when there are more than a couple of these layers on a page the code gets long and over complicated. For example, if I have a page which on one side contains an image map with 5 clickable points that shows one of 5 possible layers on the other side of the page (each with different content) this is automatically a page with lots of code which is slow to load especially if the page already has a layer based navigation bar! My question is: is there a way to use a language like php to make this process easier? For example populate the layers from a different file rather than have all the code on the same page and perhaps slim the page down a little or is this missing the point of what a language like php is about. Thanks for your help and my apologies if this is the worst question of the week. Tim Rogers
