PHP Form Events

navsha

Hi there!

I am new in PHP, I used ASP.NET but I decided to continue web developing by using PHP because it is really faster than ASP.NET. My question is: can I use Events like Form Load, Activate etc. in PHP?

Thanks

laserlight

What do "Events like Form Load, Activate etc" do?

dougal85

by form are you talking about .NET web forms? ie. the page or do you mean HTML forms?

Basically, any server side event in .NET you can replace in PHP one way or another...

navsha

I am talking about page or other controls. Let suppose I wanna run some scripts at the time of my page load, and some script at the time I change the value of Combo Box and at the time I lost the focus of Combo Box. Is it possible in PHP?

laserlight

Yes, with AJAX-type techniques. Other than that no, since PHP generally operates server side, whereas what you describe happens client side.

dougal85

Incidentally, ASP.NET just implements the AJAX automatically. It writes the javascript to do a 'postback' (as I remember it being called) for the specific events you describe.

Page load however, is when every PHP script executes. As in ASP.NET i think this is when the page is called rather than when the page finishes loading to the browser.

laserlight

Page load however, is when every PHP script executes. As in ASP.NET i think this is when the page is called rather than when the page finishes loading to the browser.

That's correct.