On Wed, 06 Jan 2021 18:37:49 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

> On 06/01/2021 18:29, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>> On Wed, 06 Jan 2021 18:09:02 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>
>>> On 06/01/2021 10:43, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 06 Jan 2021 09:36:10 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On 05/01/2021 22:23, Martin Gregorie wrote:
>>>>>> In both languages, context selects the appropriate method
>>>>>
>>>>> Until it doesn't.
>>>>>
>>>>> A day wasted debugging JavaScript to ascertain why IE was totally
>>>>> different to Firefox.
>>>>>
>>>>> There was an implicit cast happening in IE which wasn't in Firefox
>>>>> that turned a 1 into  a "1"..
>>>>>
>>>>> Context dependency just adds another layer of complexity and a
>>>>> source of more bugs
>>>>
>>>> ... well, if you use crappy interpreted languages with untyped
>>>> variables then you've chosen to accept that sort of thing as normal.
>>>>
>>> Sadly javaScript is all you get in a browser
>>>
>> Fair comment. So far when I've needed dynamic web pages, which isn't
>> often, PHP has done everything I've needed.
>>
>>
> Php is fine server side, but to get speed with a decent interactive page
> you need JavaScript in  the browser, even if its just Ajax.

The last time, maybe six months ago, that I needed to use a PHP script
was to grab data input through a form on the associated web page,
reformat it into a fixed format e-mail and send that via my MTA to a
chunk of JAVA that builds requested data files and e-mails them back to
the requester. This turned out to be fairly simple once I'd thought up a
reasonably bullet-proof way to sanitise the input sufficiently to keep
trolls, scammers and other nuisances out without inconveniencing genuine
users.


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