Call HTML control from PHP, call a webservice from HTML control

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the idea is

no matter what the back-end is
this HTML control should work with any application
no matter if the server code is done using PHP, C# or Ruby
consider a sample control
which will be used to show following information on a profile page
1. Logged in user's Photo
2. His/her Name
Assume we need to show only these 2 things on this control
and this control should be reusable
i.e. I should be able to use this HTML control with an application written in PHP, C# or Ruby
This control will accept the Photo URL and show the photo
also it will accept the string for user name and will display the name

Posted 13-Aug-12 20:34pm

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Updated 13-Aug-12 20:54pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 14-Aug-12 11:31am

In v.2, you made is not a question. What's the question? Problem? Concern?
--SA

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-08-13T20:49:00

1) No. PHP works on the server side, and HTML control exists only on the client side. Besides, HTML control is not a method, function, procedure, operator or property, not a callable object. The notion of "call" is not applicable.

2) You can send a HTTP request to a Web service or call a Web method from the client size the same way you normally generate HTTP request: an anchor with some URI as a value of its href attribite (a trivial case), a Web form or an Ajax call. Again, you don't "call a service" (please see above). You need to read on each of these method in corresponding HTML chapters, read about Ajax, read on Web services and Web method; but first of all, on how HTTP works.

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Disclaimer: this answer was based on v.1 of the question.

—SA