Keith's Weblog: Comments on "ScriptServer - client/server communication between Javascript and PHP"

by Harry Fuecks

Wed, 06 Oct 2004 08:27:03 +0000

Thanks for the announce. Think I'm confusing everyone because the Sourceforge site also has a fork of Simon's XML-RPC implementation (hence the site's name).

ScriptServer actually sends strings to PHP (from Javascript) ready for unserialize() while in the opposite direction it generates Javascript wrapped in an anonymous function e.g. response from Colors::listColors - on the Javascript side use eval to "unserialize" the response. Basically uses inbuilt parsers already available in PHP and Javascript; parsing (e.g. XML) is usually alot harder than generating.

by Keith

Wed, 06 Oct 2004 08:29:51 +0000

Even better! Who needs XML? Kick ass. Now I need an app to try this out on.

by Tim Wood

Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:12:51 +0000

It all sounds wonderful and good. Problems:

1) The docs linked above don't link to the .zip file they refer (the one with the nifty server code). There are .tar.gz files at sourceforge.net/projects/xmlrpccom/

2) The sample code in the docs have lots of missing quotes.

3) Once I was able to fix all the problems I could find, The basic example in the quick start part still wouldn't work.

I suspect it'll be a great tool when you don't spend an hour plus with the quickstart and still not even have a working 'hello world' app. But, till then I'm going to make do with the code I found over at www.paranoidfish.org/boxes/2002/01/30/