PHP Q?

John Seth johnseth at phoenixwing.com
Sat Mar 27 19:53:56 EST 2004


As Mark said, in order to have PHP do anything with form input, it would
have to be submitted, thus causing the page to regenerate/reload.  To make
a browser react without refreshing the page requires flash or java script
(or java of some orher type).

  --  Tony


jb said:
> The benefits to using JavaScript for forms is that it can be used to
> weed out bogus entries before the info is sent to query the server. It
> also saves bandwidth if the info can be given locally on the loaded HTML
> page/s. Another benefit is you can filter out hacker code, scripts, tags
> etc. being submitted to the server. If you set up the forms with PHP, I
> would imagine that each entry would have to reload the page because the
> info has to be sent to the server and returned answer would need to
> re-load the page. I don't know much about PHP so I can't really give a
> complete answer.
> JB
>
> On Fri, 2004-03-26 at 23:27, Robert Dege wrote:
>> Okay,
>>
>> I'm sure everyone at one time or another has run into a web form.  They
>> have some really cool forms where selecting an option from Field #1,
>> automagically generates a customized list for Field #2.  Then, if you
>> change your option in Field #1, it once again automajically regerates
>> the
>> customized list for Field #2.  All this without reloading the page.
>>
>> I wondering if PHP supports this kind of Web Form.
>>
>>
>> Dege
>>
>> PS - I'm sure I can dig up a related URL if I didn't convey myself
>> correctly.
>
>




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