Re: Difference between PHP and JavaScript

Using the File System Object (FSO), a proprietary MS extension using ActiveX


Refer MS documentation on Jscript ver 5

----- Original Message -----
From: Peter Benoit <pbenoit(at)triton-network.com>
To: 'Dennis Lapcewich' <Dennis.Lapcewich(at)unisa.edu.au>; HWG-Languages
<hwg-languages(at)hwg.org>
Cc: 'Nasser Dassi' <nd264(at)is9.nyu.edu>; Peter Benoit
<pbenoit(at)triton-network.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 9:43 PM
Subject: RE: Difference between PHP and JavaScript


| Please tell me how you would access the file system via Javascript in ASP.
|
| > -----Original Message-----
| > From: Dennis Lapcewich [SMTP:Dennis.Lapcewich(at)unisa.edu.au]
| > Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2000 8:51 PM
| > To: HWG-Languages
| > Cc: 'Nasser Dassi'; Peter Benoit
| > Subject: RE: Difference between PHP and JavaScript
| >
| > > -----Original Message-----
| > > I apologize if you feel offended, but if someone mastered
| > > JavaScript to
| > > its fullest potential, then that person can effectively use it in ASP
| > > instead of VBScript, in addition to its client-side capablities.  In
| > > comparison of JavaScript with VBScript, javascript is actually MORE
| > > powerful than VBScript.
| > >
| > >   (ASP, even though developed by Microsoft, has greatest strength with
| > > JavaScript, not VBScript -- the smaller-scale version of
| > > Visual Basic.)
| > >
| >
| >
| > We just completed a database project using ASP pages.  The pages contain
| > Javascript, VBScript and connect to an SQL server, not to mention
utilize
| > SQL,
| > Access, textfile and a vendor-supplied proprietary databases.  While
| > VBScript
| > can be the bees knees with ASP, there are many things it cannot do well,
| > if at
| > all.  This is where Javascript fulfilled the requirements.  It even go
to
| > the
| > point where we were transferring variables back and forth between
VBScript
| > and
| > Javascript.
| >
| > We went that route because we played on the strengths of each of the
| > scripting
| > languages to achieve the desired results.
| >
| > It was a fun project, and we are glad it is finished.
| >
| >
| > Dennis
| >
| > --------------------------------------------------------
| > Dennis Lapcewich - Webmaster
| > ITS Corporate Web Services
| > University of South Australia
| > Adelaide, Australia
| > Dennis.Lapcewich(at)UniSA.edu.au
| > www.unisa.edu.au
| >
|

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