---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Nathan Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jan 23, 2008 11:08 AM Subject: Re: [UPHPU] Purpose behind PHP To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
OK, sweet, I think that pretty much clears up my confusion. So most people use it for doing things like retrieving data, or building SOAP, or XML-RPC web services, or so? Nathan On Jan 23, 2008 11:05 AM, thebigdog < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right, and so maybe I'm not being clear as to what I'm thinking. Here's > > my current application framework for my web application: > > > > XHTML ---> JavaScript (AJAX) ---> PHP (like a web service) ---> > > MySQL/XML/etc. > > > > At the top level, where my XHTML is, Is there a reason for me to use > > PHP? I don't need any content management systems, and I require > > JavaScript to be enabled (or I might switch a bunch of it to server side > > > JavaScript). Does this paint a clearer picture of my question? > > You dont need php on the frontend unless you need it to be dynamic. If > that is > not the case then you dont need php in that layer. Most developers will > use php > on the frontend layer that will generate the xhtml and javascript for the > client > to render. If you have that handled then you dont need php to do that. > > -- > thebigdog > -- Nathan Lane -- Nathan Lane _______________________________________________ UPHPU mailing list [email protected] http://uphpu.org/mailman/listinfo/uphpu IRC: #uphpu on irc.freenode.net
