Re: Pass database id through href

Gavin Amm wrote:

EXAMPLE: (I know you can't use "value" with the "a" tag, but bear with me for illustration purposes in this pseudo-code) <form name="theForm"> <input type="text" name="title"> <!-- etc with the fields --> <input type=text name="formInput"> <a href="javascript:document.theForm.submit();" name="parent" value="23">Auditing Home</a> <a href="javascript:document.theForm.submit();" name="parent" value="17">Finance Home</a> <a href="javascript:document.theForm.submit();" name="parent" value="122">Planning Home</a> <a href="javascript:document.theForm.submit();" name="parent" value="231">Tax Home</a> </form> When the admin clicks on one of the "parent" hyperlinks, the form is submitted with (in this example) (say they click on the "Tax Home" link) the values: $title == [whatever the user types into the text field] $parent == 231 How do I get this $parent value from the html page??

Instead of calling theForm.submit(), all another function that sets a form variable before submitting the form. <a href="javascript:mysubmit(231);">Tax Home</a> <script> function mysubmit(var) { document.theForm.parent.value = var; document.theForm.submit(); } </script> "parent" might be a reserved word, so watch out for that. I'm no JS wiz, but I think that's something along the lines of what you want to do. You basically use JS to add a form element based upon what link was clicked. -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals – www.phparch.com