[How to simply retrieve the window height before generating page?]

Yeah, I gave up trying to Google up an answer and asked the question at stackoverflow. I got a promising answer, and now I'm just trying to stitch together the parts from that answer into an actual working example.

 

I certainly appreciate the help here, but I was already pretty clear on how to get the values in via jquery. The trick is how to get those values back to the PHP script on the server, hence asking on the AJAX board.

 

Thanks,

Drew

[How to simply retrieve the window height before generating page?]

Not knowing the terminology, I'd love to get just terms to use in searching for a minimal document that would do something as simple as this.

[How to simply retrieve the window height before generating page?]

Well sure, and having a quick example performing a very simple comparable action would help get me up to speed in a hurry. Could you point me toward a minimal document that would do something like retrieving a screen dimension before generating the actual page? Or I could Google for hours in hopes of finding something like that.

[How to simply retrieve the window height before generating page?]

i admit to knowing practically nothing about AJAX, but these look to me like they would be functions that could be used in javascript -- in the browser, of course. How would I then get these values back to PHP variables on the server? 

[How to simply retrieve the window height before generating page?]

I have only the haziest understanding of AJAX, but at this point I just want to check the height of the browser window and get that into a PHP variable before I generate the actual page. Is there an example of that sort of thing posted somewhere? I'm working in Joomla, so jQuery is loaded.

 

Thanks,

Drew