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Does Dashboard allow PHP in widgets? If so, then this would make the coolest widget.
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Doubt it. PHP is a server side scripting language. I think Dashboard only supports X/HTML, Javascript, and Dashcode, but I could be mistaken...
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Web 2.0 - AJAX, calling PHP scripts and retrieving data.
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Originally Posted by hyteckit 
Web 2.0 - AJAX, calling PHP scripts and retrieving data.
But the PHP interpretation would not be happening at the Dashboard level. I guess if the question were whether Apple could scrape PHP generated HTML/Javascript off of pages, sure, this is possible.
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OS X comes with a command line PHP interpreter, so you can call out to that from a widget if you want.
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Originally Posted by Thinine
OS X comes with a command line PHP interpreter, so you can call out to that from a widget if you want.
True. PHP itself comes with the CLI interpreter, which OS X bundles, but such a system would probably call upon dynamic DB driven content, so the local PHP is probably not going to do much good.
Do the dashboard widgets simply scrape HTML off of a web page, or is the data simply fed to them by XML, Soap, or some other form of data exchange?
I admit, I don't know too much about how Dashboard widgets communicate with web services.
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Originally Posted by besson3c
Do the dashboard widgets simply scrape HTML off of a web page, or is the data simply fed to them by XML, Soap, or some other form of data exchange?
I admit, I don't know too much about how Dashboard widgets communicate with web services.
Depends on the widget, I suppose. Widgets are basically just AJAX-powered Web pages.
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
Depends on the widget, I suppose. Widgets are basically just AJAX-powered Web pages.
So, in most cases, they just display stuff processed and fed from web services.. I.e. there is no logic or data processing going on in most widgets, just formatting and display of data? Makes sense, although I'd imagine that widgets do support some basic processing/calculation for widgets such as the currency converter or calculator.
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Originally Posted by besson3c
So, in most cases, they just display stuff processed and fed from web services.. I.e. there is no logic or data processing going on in most widgets, just formatting and display of data? Makes sense, although I'd imagine that widgets do support some basic processing/calculation for widgets such as the currency converter or calculator.
I wouldn't say that. The J part of AJAX is quite capable of logic and data processing.
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Widgets can be all local, all remote, or a mix of both. You can even use a full Cocoa back end as well. You can do quite a bit with them.
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Originally Posted by Chuckit
I wouldn't say that. The J part of AJAX is quite capable of logic and data processing.
True, especially for the examples I provided...
Why didn't Apple just make Dashcode the iPhone SDK?
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Originally Posted by besson3c
Why didn't Apple just make Dashcode the iPhone SDK?
Here is one possible reason why Apple didn't let users use Daschode asn the SDK. If Apple limits "apps" to AJAX, they can limit the amount of CPU time, network and memory utilization from Safari. One application. If you were to allow widgets, similar to the ones in Tiger where you can embed command line apps, perl or shell scripts, mini-apps written in Cocoa/Objective-C, or whatever, it might be harder to keep control of these things.
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