Susan hit the nail on the head. She's pointing out why I said it was a
"hack" - if you're not understanding the problem correctly (the
difference between client-side and server-side) then the proposed
solution might be "simple and workable" but it's still wrong.
More to the point, what exactly are
I'm watching this discussion with interest since I asked a similar question
last month (about sending PHP stats from a JS onclick event). The answer that
came up was to put a redirect to the link page, run the PHP script on a
redirect.php page and then send it on to the destination.
I've set i
At 9:32 AM -0400 3/31/08, Brian D. wrote:
> And don't forget this way: :-)
var a = 1;
(new Image()).src = '/myscript.php?a='+ a;
I'm going to recommend *against* that. That works, but it's an ugly
hack, and often when you're trying to do something like this you're
not addressing a deep
Hi Tom,
Not a problem. Here is the "Capture Client Date Routine" which I "include"
into the main PHP script.
var Days = new
Array('Sunday','Monday','Tuesday','Wednesday','Thursday','Friday','Saturday');
var Datum;
var today = new Date();
var Year = takeYear(today);
var Month = leadingZero(t
To complicate this little ole back to basics essential item.
Here lies crude but doable intermingling of php into js on the fly as a
web page is being created.
So you are passing php vars to js, you just do all of it 100% in advance
before you even output a single drop
of final scripts or html.
> And don't forget this way: :-)
>
> var a = 1;
> (new Image()).src = '/myscript.php?a='+ a;
I'm going to recommend *against* that. That works, but it's an ugly
hack, and often when you're trying to do something like this you're
not addressing a deeper architectural problem.
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real
At 6:07 PM -0400 3/30/08, Daniel Convissor wrote:
Hi Paul:
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 09:18:10PM +0100, PaulCheung wrote:
The problem is I cannot transfer the Javascript variable needed in to PHP.
JavaScript is client side. PHP is server side. This has been discussed
on this list a couple ti
