JPSpan - Your thoughts

[bubblenut]

This came up on PHPKitchen a few days ago and I kinda skipped over it thinking it was just going to be chucking stuff between iFrames or something but this seems a lot more than just that.

I guess you want the linky-winkies? (or maybe just the links)
The Article
JPSpan

What are your thoughts?

If they're not along the lines of "Damn that's cool!" then you can leave them at the door. I only want opinions which bolster my own. 😉 😃

[AstroTeg]

I just briefly looked at JPSpan. Looks interesting for mating up PHP variables with Javascript.

Not exactly the same, but I cheated with my click tracker (Firefox only, not IE friendly, may or may not work in other browsers). PHP is requested by dynamically adding a new javascript file request to the HTML page. The contents of the javascript file get executed immediately once loaded. So I just have PHP dynamically generating the Javascript file as needed (which for this click tracking toy isn't difficult). For this toy, click on the Track Update button and the script comes back and draws the dots on the screen where people clicked (with IP addresses being in different colors, but I haven't fully tested this). I would figure this could also be done with JPSpan.

[AstroTeg]

I found an intranet app I had worked a while go. I ended up using a Javascript library to support WDDX in multiple browsers. Beyond the Javascript library, WDDX is pretty easy to do from PHP's side using [man]wddx_serialize_vars[/man]. Although I guess if wanted a PHP class to be available in Javascript, you're still stuck (which JPSpan solves from the looks of it).

[vaaaska]

Check this. He loads an XML file via javascript when you click on the comments - no refresh.

http://www.forgetfoo.com/

[onion2k]

That is really nice..

[piersk]

This JSpan milarcky might be very useful. Especially for getting lists of names from a db and putting it into the form input...

Anyone played around with it yet?

[bubblenut]

I haven't yet but I want to. I've got a number of ideas I'd like to use it for.

• "Who's online" list that updates in realtime

• All sorts of formy fun, the one which springs to mind is the results of one select affecting the content of the next.

• Prehapse a little ambitios, but why not an entire CMS framework built in both PHP and Javscript allowing the developer to build fully featured sites which only update the content which changes on each click rather than the whole page (like vaaaska's example above)

OK, only three but three's a number, just not a bit one.

[Sgarissta]

Originally posted by bubblenut
I haven't yet but I want to. I've got a number of ideas I'd like to use it for.

• "Who's online" list that updates in realtime

• All sorts of formy fun, the one which springs to mind is the results of one select affecting the content of the next.

• Prehapse a little ambitios, but why not an entire CMS framework built in both PHP and Javscript allowing the developer to build fully featured sites which only update the content which changes on each click rather than the whole page (like vaaaska's example above)

OK, only three but three's a number, just not a bit one. [/B]

your #3 sounds like more of an excuse to look into XUL 🙂

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by Sgarissta
your #3 sounds like more of an excuse to look into XUL 🙂

[cvs] / jpspan / jpspan / examples / xulmai.php
😃