Comments on: Remote JavaScripting Example – Part I

By: gunabalans

gunabalans — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 04:25:36 +0000

Good, i am using xtemplate , this is very useful to me in xtemplate learning perspective and any useful information pl put new article in xtemplates and php

By: James

James — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:06:05 +0000

This is indeed a cool technique, but it’s not just limited to PHP. Java and .NET are both fully capable of generating JavaScript as well.

For example, the JSP Servlet engine is capable of rendering JavaScript, and I would imagine that ASP is capable as well.

The thing I like about the JSP engine is this: You can modify the deployment descriptor and tell it to process *.js files as if they were JSP files! Which means it is easier to hide the server side processing by using a *.js extension instead of *.jsp.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:35:40 +0000

That is only if you are attempting to call the script from https. The JSON approach is fairly easy. Rather than echoing out the HTML as normal, you’d simply echo the HTML out as a string with a callback function around it (which you’d need to pass)

By: Wandering Pig Effer

Wandering Pig Effer — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 18:01:36 +0000

This setup will only work if you are within the same domain – otherwise, you get permission denied errors due to cross-domain limitations. I think you need to use a JSON approach to get around this problem…

By: Goldfarb

Goldfarb — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 14:02:19 +0000

I like your article.

A lot of people criticise PHP because of its over-simplicity and downright dirty semantics. I think this shows just how awesome PHP is in the middle-tier when you compare it to more “enterprise” solutions using Java or .NET.