Database access

[apffal]

Can I use javascript to access and querying database tables, (such as in sql format), in different operating systems (windows, linux, mac os) ?
If yes, how to get information about it ?

 

[Diancecht]

You cannot access a database from client-side.

You'd need to send a request to the server and get the results back from there.

Cheers,

Dian

 

[apffal]

And what about getting results from text files, like in XML ?

 

[tgreer]

JavaScript is a client-side language, as Diancecht pointed out. That means it runs in the client, which for web-development means the browser, and only has access to the object model of the client, which means the DOM (Document Object Model) of the web page.

To access external files, you'll need to work with a server-side language, such as PHP.



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