Hi, On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 11:57 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Before you fall of your chairs let me expand on that ... > > Many of the sites I'm supporting are being chased by the we want your > work mob, and being told they "Must have apps to stay in business". Of > cause that means both an android and an apple one with a discount on the > pair. BUT in most cases a restyling of the existing website to be more > mobile/tablet friendly layout is all that is needed. To that end I've > finally nailed a configuration of bootstrap3 which will work with my > smarty templating and legacy jquery browser side actions. ( Fourth setup > I've worked through as previous 'solutions' proved dead ends! ) > > Very few of us use PHP as a programming language in isolation to > anything else? Although that is perhaps not obvious from some of the > discussions. Areas like better JSON or HTTP support all fall into the > camp of integration with the rest of the infrastructure? Something which > is now totally different to what existed when PHP5 first came out! > > Eclipse provides me with a flat workbench where js, css, raw html, php, > smarty tpl, sql, and even c/c++ all co-exist and the right highlighting > and support tools are provided. Javascript is the obvious choice for > browser side programming, and browser side templates like bootstrap rely > on it to make elements of the layout work, and PHP is more than happy > feeding that functionality, but trying to maintain two different > languages between the two ends is perhaps not ideal? > > Am I totally mad thinking that a tool that converts perhaps a lite > version of PHP into Javascript might plug a hole in the infrastructure? > Parts like validation beyond what html5 has added is one I've just hit > where the original site passed form data back to the server and pushed > validation errors back, so we have the specialist bits in php already. > But while html5 validation does some of the job, some javascript will be > needed to fill the gaps ... with a fall back to PHP for non-html5 browsers. > > Perhaps something does already exist that I'm missing? > This seems kind of off-topic for this mailing list, isn't it? > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > Regards, -- Florian Margaine
