Re: onClick

From: Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 23:03:14 +0000
Subject: Re: onClick
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Richard That is good information. Thank you very much for your help. Jonathan "Richard Crawford" <rscrawford@mossroot.com> wrote in message news:3C0BF54F.2080203@mossroot.com... > Not directly, no. You can call a JavaScript function with the onClick > command, but not a PHP function. > > But here's what I've done when I needed to do something like that. > > Create a separate page for the function, like function.php. Then in the > anchor tag in your main page (call it index.php), call that page... > e.g., < a href="function.php >click me for a function< /a >, passing > parameters either in the URL or by cookies. > > Your function page might look something like this: > > <?php > {insert data into db here} > header("Location: index.php"); > ?> > > In other words, in function.php, the code does the function and then > immediately issues a redirect command to send the user back to the page > where they started. > > You could also include the function in the code for index.php, and > simply have the anchor tag link back to index.php, passing parameters > via your favorite parameter passing technique. > > Jonathan Duncan wrote: > > > Is it possible to call a PHP function using the "onclick" parameter? >

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