JavaScript & MySQL

[linusthefish]

Is it possible to use JavaScript & MySQL? What I'm looking to do is
query a database and then output the results in a popup window. I've
got the popup window part down, I just can't figure out how to query
the database.

Is it possible?

TIA,
Benjy

[Dag Sunde]

linusthefish wrote:

Is it possible to use JavaScript & MySQL? What I'm looking to do is
query a database and then output the results in a popup window. I've
got the popup window part down, I just can't figure out how to query
the database.

On the serverside, yes.
From the client? No

--
Dag.

[Seige]

Basically dag means to say No.

You can't query the server MySQL using Javascript alone. There's no
direct method to achieve it. However if you have access to server side
scripts... you can find a way to work around it.
Dag Sunde wrote:

linusthefish wrote:

Is it possible to use JavaScript & MySQL? What I'm looking to do is
query a database and then output the results in a popup window. I've
got the popup window part down, I just can't figure out how to query
the database.

On the serverside, yes.
From the client? No

--
Dag.

[drclue]

linusthefish wrote:

Is it possible to use JavaScript & MySQL? What I'm looking to do is
query a database and then output the results in a popup window. I've
got the popup window part down, I just can't figure out how to query
the database.

Is it possible?

TIA,
Benjy

Well, under normal circumstances it is not possible, however
I myself do MySql transactions from javascript in the browser
every day.

I created a middleware server on my host that takes a url encoded
request and returns the results as JASONized XML that my scripts convert
back to an XML object passed to a javascript defined callback function

The cross-domain javascript I wrote , simply inserts script tags
dynamically that cause as many transactions with MySql as desired
without a page reload

[pegasusflightresources]

drclue wrote:

linusthefish wrote:

Is it possible to use JavaScript & MySQL? What I'm looking to do is
query a database and then output the results in a popup window. I've
got the popup window part down, I just can't figure out how to query
the database.

Is it possible?

TIA,
Benjy

Well, under normal circumstances it is not possible, however
I myself do MySql transactions from javascript in the browser
every day.

I created a middleware server on my host that takes a url encoded
request and returns the results as JASONized XML that my scripts convert
back to an XML object passed to a javascript defined callback function

The cross-domain javascript I wrote , simply inserts script tags
dynamically that cause as many transactions with MySql as desired
without a page reload

Dear sir,
That is exactly what the previous posters were saying. JavaScript
cannot work with MySQL alone.

I have the honor to remain your most humble and Ob't Sv't in our war
against the King.

--
Patrick Reilly
1st Coy.
Colonel Seth Warner's Regiment