Resolution

Anon

Ok, I'm aware php doesn't have any detection for screen/browser resolution (which it should 😉
I've read some of the other threads like:
http://www.phpbuilder.com/forum/read.php3?num=1&id=107447&thread=102431

But it still leaves me with the problem of how to get the resolution. I am creating a site which must be coded to very specific settings for each operating system/browser/resolution. Is there a way other than javascript forwarding to detect the information and pass it to php?

Mark

brandonschnell

javascript is client side, php is server side. etc. etc.

so your choices are any of the client side technologies. activex & java might be able to do this, but javascript is the simpliest and is widely supported.

Anon

browsers are client side too... its all the same php should support it. No matter though... I'll figure something out

Anon

I don't suppose its possible for php to send part of a file and pause parsing till a variable is set then resume? 🙂

brandonschnell

yes, but it won't help you.

javascript can't set a php variable without a GET or POST back to the server.

Anon

can anything set the contents of a php variable without post/get? like an applet?

Mark

mrskhris

Mark,
please read something on server/client technology. It will help you a lot, belive me.
CGI/HTTP RFCs would be useful too.

Quick fix: you have to create a page with javascript that determines browser resolution and then immediately submit a form with these values back to the server. After that my suggestion would be to put resolution into a cookie, and use it from there.

Anon

I agree that mrskhris's quick fix solution might be the best way to solve this problem at this point. Here is a link that may be of some help:

http://webreference.com/js/column17/

Good Luck!

Rob