Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 01/22/06 08:13

one man army wrote:
> In article <tfudnd0VXYeTaU3eRVn-uw@comcast.com>,
> Randy Webb <HikksNotAtHome@aol.com> wrote STUFF
>
>
>>how to quote
>
> [yeah, I did not quote 'cause every news reader shows the thread easily,
> anyway. Why waste lines? - I tried to write Randy back via email but the
> email addr doesn't go. So I post again. ]
>

No, NOT "every news reader shows the thread easily". Some do, some
don't and some have the option of turning it on or off. Also, the
original post may or may not still exist on the newserver they're using.
(I remember one I used a few years back - a busy group was scrolling
off in about 4-5 days).

And not following standard practices (like quoting and bottom-posting in
comp.lang.php) will not make you any fast friends.

> I pulled off the JS->PHP document.body.appendChild() hack, only to find
> that after setting an element in the page to the result of the PHP mySQL
> Query, I read the element with Javascript and it is "not yet changed".
> Some kind of latency problem ( guessing). In other lives I have
> initiated an event (chaining) and then handled the response in the
> subsequent event. I do not know how to do that in this
> HTML/Javascript/PHP combo.
>
> TO make progress I have reverted to a simple form action o nthe intro
> page, with the SQL in a target PHP file, then redirect to the main page
> upon success.
>
> Now I face coding the main page, where I DO want dynamic updates (using
> "dynamically loaded scripts" apparently). I have a simple version
> already, using Javascript only. Simple meaning 500 lines of js. I now
> need the MySQL because the real db engine has deeper requirements than
> my JS demo handles.
>
> I would be willing to call Perl to do the MySQL, but the main point is
> not to jump around to URLs and redraw the page. I thought the
> dynamically loading script would be a neat solution. But reading the
> result is now apparently a problem.
>
> Or I need another way to pass back the result other than: setting an
> element in the page to a value (latency problem); or passing it through
> a URL (causes a redraw of the page). I have noticed that sometimes the
> browser is smart and sees that the URL is the same and does a smart
> refresh, but that is not guranteed.
>
> So I do appreciate the insights. As I said, I am new to this. Further
> discussion is welcome, or I'll start a new thread on the chaining topic
> or something...
>
> best regards -brian

I'd love to help you with your problem, but I have absolutely NO idea
what it is. I don't have access to the previous posts.


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