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PHP + jQuery :heart: = Puente, a library that serves as a bridge/proxy between both :revolving_hearts:.
https://github.com/jgmdev/puente

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PHP + jQuery :heart: = Puente, a library that serves as a bridge/proxy between both :revolving_hearts:.

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# Puente :bridge_at_night:



**Puente** which is the spanish word for "*bridge*" (you can hear the

pronunciation [here](https://www.howtopronounce.com/spanish/puente/)), is a

PHP library that facilitates the communication between your php code and

jQuery/JavaScript code. It serves as a jQuery wrapper that generates working

JavaScript code. It uses ajax functionality to send all registered browser

events back to php for server side processing, then it returns more JavaScript

code to the client browser.



## Why?



Today's web development process can be tedious. You can achieve the same goal

in 1000 different ways, many JavaScript libraries exist that facilitate the

communication between your frontend and backend. Examples of these libraries

are:



* Angular

* Aurelia

* Backbone.js

* Ember.js

* Meteor

* Mithril

* React

* Vue.js

* Polymer

* (insert more frameworks here... :trollface:)



Many stuff exists and keeps proliferating, making a web developer life harder.

Knowledge doesn't comes for free and you will have to invest time learning these

JavaScript frameworks. While this is yet another project that helps you achieve

the same goal, it is based on the solid jQuery library that has been around for

many years now. jQuery is easy to learn and almost every web developer has

worked with it.



What this project does is ease the communication between the user browser

and your backend. This project is not intended to remove the need of writing

JavaScript code, but to make it easier to interact with the frontend from the

backend without needing to implement a Web API for every basic stuff you have

to do.



For a better idea of what this project has to offer keep reading below.



## Usage



First you will need to include the jQuery library in your html code:



```html



```



Then you will have to initialize a Puente instance:



```php

$puente = new \Puente\Puente();

```



To manipulate a DOM element you will use the **jq()** method which will return

a JQuery object instance that mimics the jQuery functionality:



```php

$puente->jq("#message")->html("Hello World!");

```



You can register events as you would do with jQuery, with the **difference** that

you will be able to register a **PHP callback!**:



```php

$puente->jq(".element")->click(function($puente, $data){

    $puente->jq("js:this")->text("Hello World!");

});

```



You can access other DOM objects like **window**, **console**, **location**,

**localStorage** and **sessionStorage**, the possibilities for more are

endless:



```php

$puente->jq(".element")->click(function($puente, $data){

    $puente->window()->alert("Hello World!");

});

```



Also, when calling JavaScript functions you may want to give it a JavaScript

object instead of a string, which you can achieve by using the **js:** prefix:



```php

$puente->jq(".element")->click(function($puente, $data){

    // This will actually show the value of window.innerWidth instead

    // of literally showing the string.

    $puente->window()->alert("js:window.innerWidth");

});

```



When registering an event you can tell it to fetch data from user browser by

giving a valid JSON string to the **$data** parameter:



```php

$puente->jq(".element")->click(

    function($puente, $data){

        $puente->window()->alert($data["width"]);

    },

    "{width: window.innerWidth}" //You can also feed it php arrays and objects.

);

```



This will send the client browser window width back to the php callback.



### Listening the registered events



All events like click, dblclick, etc... will now need to be listened by your

php script, for this all you need to do is call the following method:



```php

$puente->listenRequest();

```



This will be in charge of checking if a request to the same page that holds

the Puente code comes from the user browser and respond to it.



### Generating the code



After writing your Puente logic you will have to tell it to generate the

JavaScript code:



```php

$puente->executeCode(); //This actually prints the generated code to the document

```



If you dont want to directly print the code you can call

**getExecuteCode()** instead:



```php

$code = $puente->getExecuteCode(); //Now you can decide what to do with it

```



## Examples



To test the examples you will need PHP CLI to be installed and available on

your system path, then open a terminal and inside the **puente** project folder

do the following:



```sh

cd examples

./run.sh

```



After running the **run.sh** script open your web browser and point

it to the returned address on your terminal which by default is:



> http://localhost:8383



## Showcase



[BlueControl](https://github.com/jgmdev/bluecontrol) - php application that

controls blue light on display and uses Puente to handle the configuration

GUI dynamic events.



## Status



The library is still **under development** but it is already proving to be

useful. Many stuff could still be added.



## TODO



Add more examples and use the index.php file as the main starting

point that list all the available examples.