Posted by Jochem Maas on 10/04/04 11:10

this post was meant for the OP - I sent it to Chris W. (only) by mistake.
oops....

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From: - Wed Mar 09 19:50:29 2005

Chris W. Parker wrote:
> Mário Gamito <mailto:lists@tuxdoit.com>
> on Tuesday, March 08, 2005 4:28 PM said:
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>>I'm trying to integrate some JavaScript functions in PHP, but so far,
>>no good :(
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>>Now... i want to call this JavaScript function from the regular PHP
>>files. In particular, before the HTML code.
>>Like this:
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>>How can i do this ?
>>How to tell PHP, that def(word) is a JS function in js.php file ?
>>I've tried include ('js.php'), etc., but got no results :(

include ('js.php') will output the contents of that file to the browser,
assuming include() actually finds the file.

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> You don't and you can't. PHP does not interact with the client (like you are thinking it does) and
> Javascript does not interact with the server. They are completely different and not related, except
> that PHP can send Javascript to the client for the client to interpret.

javascript is a scripting language, there is no theoretical reason that it can't be used as a serverside
scripting language, but the fact that practically nobody in the real does says something :-). anyway
its not strictly correct to say javascript is 'clientside'.

as for calling a javascript function directly from php code, forget about it.

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> It's a bit confusing at first but once you understand it, you'll wonder why it ever didn't make sense.

1 round trip:

1. a (php) webserver gets a request for a page.
2. the server runs the requested (php) script.
3. the server sending some output to the browser.
4. the browser interprets the output.

the output is generally a webpage - this can include
<script> tags that contain/include javascript. when the
page is parsed and rendered by the browser the javascript you
included will be run.

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> Chris.
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