Help, quick question!

[perelandra]

Newb question: Is java script capable of allowing a user to change something in a webpage so that ANY user who visits that page sees this change? If not, what script or non-script language is capable of this?

Thanks!

[dflynn]

Depends on what you want. If you are changing content and allowing the page to reload, then PHP will do the trick with a MySQL database.

[perelandra]

Must one have a database? Suppose you want a text input form that spits back the text in another paragraph. Can you code this in a way so users on other computers can see this new text, without the need of a database?

Otherwise I think I need to use something other than java script. Thanks a bunch for your input, I appreciate it immensely

[dflynn]

You can save it into flatfiles. I've never done this, but I know it's possible. Try googling that

[rangana]

If you're doing things via Javascript, the changes are visible only to the client's machine as the script itself is "client-side".

Other users who viewed the page will not see the changes defined by the user.

When you do things server-side (PHP), it will be visible on all of your visitors.

[perelandra]

I'll look into that flatfile thing, dflynn. This makes sense rangana, I shall look into PHP as well. Are there any other common server-side scripting languages? Thanks all!

[Suffer]

great post, thanks guys.

[webmaster]

I'll look into that flatfile thing, dflynn. This makes sense rangana, I shall look into PHP as well. Are there any other common server-side scripting languages? Thanks all!

There's PHP and ASP that are the two most used ones.