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RE: [PHP3] RPC for PHP from the browser From: Al Brown (abrown <email protected>)
Date: 03/12/99

RPC = Remote Procedure Call

As far as I understand it, it's basically a way to run a
function/procedure/call on a remote computer by doing something locally. So
as you change form elements, or interact with java, it will run various
things on the web server without submitting the page.

Pretty cool stuff.

-Al

-----Original Message-----
From: Richard Lynch [mailto:lynch <email protected>]
Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 4:40 PM
To: Chad Cunningham; Jon Smirl; php3 <email protected>
Subject: Re: [PHP3] RPC for PHP from the browser

At 12:40 PM 3/12/99, Chad Cunningham wrote:
>Well...here's a small report...

I don't even understand what's going on, but here's another data point for
ya:

Netscape 4.06 on PC (NT)
Buttons 1 and 2 seem to function. At least, they give me back dialogs with
what look like reasonable stuff.
Button 3 - Dialogs:
  "Remote Scripting Error getserverproxy : not a public function"
  "Failed to create ASP object for : simple.php3"
  "aspObject public_description"
Button 4 - Javascript error:
  "http://jonsmirl...simphp.htm, line 75:
   aspObject has no properties."
Button 5 - errr, is it *supposed* to give an error message?...
  "ERROR_CALLBACK
   status = -1
   message = method3 : not a public function
   context = InvalidRESExecute
   date = <METHOD VERIONS='1.0.8044'><RETURN_VALUE TYPE=ERROR>method3 : not
a public function</RETURN_VALUE></METHOD>
Button 6 - seems to work... return_value = 23,abc,2.34

Would an accurate description of this technology be:

"Allow various actions such as clicks to dynamically alter the content of a
web-page from server-side scripting"

I'm still not at all clear on what RPC *is*...

>Netscape 4.51 on Macintosh
>- Nothing happened. The page loaded fine, but I couldn't click any of the
>buttons. Putting the mouse over them and clicking did nothing, they didn't
even
>depress like the should.
>
>Netscape 4.5 on a PC
>- Clicking the buttons caused a dialog to pop up which displayed some
>information about data being sent. I assume this is what was supposed to
>happen...
>
>Internet Explorer 4.01 on Macintosh
>- Page loaded, but first time I clicked a button, I got an error saying A
>Script error has occured. After that, subsequent clicks on the buttons did
>nothing.

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