Accessing Mysql with JQuery without using php

Question

I'm very new to JQuery, but I was told the one of the cool things about it is you can query a mysql database right from an html page(or in my case a smarty template)with out needing php.

I have not found any examples of this so I am asking if someone has one? Thanks

Answer 1

Let's hope that you continue not to find any examples of this. By necessity, DB access is kept away from the client. Imagine the mayhem if users could pop open your JS and start firing arbitrary queries/commands at your DB.

Answer 2

This is not possible.

You might be hearing about the HTML5 Web SQL Database standard.

Answer 3

Nope, you're misinformed. This is definitely not possible. You will always need a server-side language to access a remote database, JQuery is not built to do this.

JQuery is able to parse RSS feeds, JSON and XML documents without a server-side language (related questions e.g. here and here). Maybe that is what you mean?