Crouching Javascript, Hidden PHP

I keep losing the thread on this one but, at least for my own sake (so I can find this when I want to explore some of the techniques that he describes), I'm going to make a stab at summarizing Harry Fueck's recent series of SitePoint blog entries. The gist of the three (so far) blog threads (1, 2, 3) is that with the advent of the Mozilla browsers, javascript is a perfectly acceptable and consistent solution for doing client-side pre-processing work. Sure, you want your heavy stuff done on the server, but javascript, provided it's done right, really works well these days. What Harry and others have been doing is to create functions in PHP that can generate javascript code to accompany a given application. Cool stuff!

Posted by Tom on September 10, 2004