Re: [MLUG] PHP4 and Ncurses

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:

> John Engelbrecht wrote:
> > 
> > What would you do with ncurses Funtions in Php4?
> > I know lynx is using ncurses Library, but it doesn't
> > let web pages control it, does it?
> 
> ncurses is just a library of functions that make it easy to write text
> based applications that make full use of the screen.  So for php4 to
> control ncurses in lynx - well that is the same as having php4 control
> X-windows (or rather the X-windows functions) when you run netscape.
> 
> Did I understand you correctly?

I was even more puzzled than that.  I had *thought* that php was just
something that mattered on the server side (unlike javascript, say).  So
I don't even see where the control could be coming from.

The only connection I could come up with was that maybe lynx can report
things to the server about the terminal it's running in (e.g., number of
lines and columns, etc.) that it manipulates via ncurses, and that php
could chew on that information to tweak pages.  But even that sounds
wrong.

jking


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