I am trying to create a site where someone can create an "item" and the database will store an id and php generates a url for that id. So next time when the person comes back with that url it will remember the person's settings (variables). Now the problem is that in my site javascript need to know these variables.
So what is the best solution for this? passing the variables in the superglobal "GET" or maybe cookies? Or is there a better way to pass these variables to javascript?
What about
$var1 = shift;
rather than reading the value from standard input or argument files?
The mobiusklein answers is pretty good, but there is "hack" you should consider. Define your Javascript method to receive params and send data as params to your function.
main.py
@app.route('/')
def hello():
data = {'username': 'Pang', 'site': '.com'}
return render_template('settings.html', data=data)
app.js
function myFunc(vars) {
return vars
}
settings.html
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" {{ url_for('static', filename='app.js')}}></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
myVar = myFunc({{vars|tojson}})
</script>
</head>
</html>
If you don't want to use javascript, you can handle it via php. Take a look at this lib: http://code.google.com/p/php-mobile-detect/. And then you could do something like:
<?php
include 'Mobile_Detect.php';
$detect = new Mobile_Detect();
if ($detect->isMobile()) {
header('Location: yourpage.php');
exit(0);
}
Cookies are not the way to transfer variables between client and server. you should append key/variables pairs to your request URL using either a get (querystring) or post method.
jQuery ajax example;
$.get('http://www.myphpserver.com/script.php?row_id=' + NewCookieValue);
just use php to print some dynamic javascript