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Posted by Bryan on 10/22/06 23:30
Sorry I'm just now getting around to looking at this some more. It's
been a long week! I'll try this again and let you guys know if it
works.
Thanks again for all the help you guys have offered! Again, I'll let
you know if I get it to work for me.
Bryan
Johnny wrote:
> "Jerry Stuckle" <jstucklex@attglobal.net> wrote in message
> news:7rydnS6W7rJT3ajYnZ2dnUVZ_vydnZ2d@comcast.com...
> <snip/>
> > >>What a confusing way to do it - when Joe's method works quite well.
> > >>
> > >
> > > what a confusing and totally uncalled for response: when argument fails
> just
> > > dismiss... oi!
> > >
> > > what is so confusing about replacing 'foo.js' with 'script.php?foo'
> after
> > > all it is that simple, the rest is illustration padding...
> > > and BTW in case you didn't notice Joe and I are essentailly in agreement
> > > except for the header part, which you don't argue with, just dismiss the
> > > entire post. Anyone can dismiss. All I have done is expand on what Joe
> said
> > > with an example but showing that it works just fine without the header.
> > > And your contribution is...even more confusing but lacking any
> substance.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> > No, I disagree.
> >
> > Yes, your answer and Joe's do the same thing.
> OK...
>
> > But his is
> > straightforward and easy to understand.
>
> That's clearly _not_ the case as Bryan responded "Thanks for the help guys,
> but I can't get it to work."
>
> > Yours is more complicated,
> > harder to understand and more prone to errors - especially when you have
> > to later modify it.
>
> err...since Joe's didn't cut it , I felt that expansion might help.
> and I'm very surprised that you find such a simple example as the few lines
> I supplied hard to understand.
> LOL The "prone to errors" assertion is interesting in such a short piece of
> script...
>
> It was meant as the simplest, yet complete, _working_ example of returning
> javascipt using a PHP script.
> A place to start from...
> the basic minimum HTML tags around the script tag,
> <html>...<script...></script><html>
> don't see what's so prone to error there... I must be missing something
>
> the other the bare minimum to return some javascript:
> <?php #foo.php
> $js = do_what_you_do_to_get_the_javascript();
> echo $js;
> ?>
> prone to error? well I guess do_what_you_do_to_get_the_javascript(); is
> prone to error but it is just as prone when done from Joe's same difference.
>
> >
> > KISS. And Joe's is much simpler.
> >
> The point of the exercise is to help Bryan "get it to work"
> Clearly, although simpler, Joe's post failed in that end.
> Has my post failed to help Bryan get it to work? Only Bryan can say.
>
> Just in case Bryan hasn't got it to work yet:
> I'll simplify bits for Jerry and expand some more for Bryan, best of both
> worlds :-)
>
> in the html (simplified...just the script line from the file):
> <script type='text/javascript' src='bar.php?file=foo'></script>
>
> in the javascript file foo.js:
> alert("hi there!");
>
> in the PHP file, with Joe's header:
> <?php #bar.php
> header('Content-type: text/javascript');
> echo file_get_contents($_GET['file'].".js");
> ?>
>
> or even simpler, which Jerry professes to like :-), without Joe's header
> <?php #bar.php
> echo file_get_contents($_GET['file'].".js");
> ?>
>
> This works with and without the header in bar.php
> minimum 1 code line in each file. simple enough? and yet not so simple as
> Joe's post but yet expanded to a working example.
>
> Hope this helps get it to work for you Bryan.
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