Re: calling javascript

Thanx for your help, I am actually a web designer! I dont think u understand 100% I have a form and Im doing a check on submission to check whether there are any blank field and if there are I want to call function.. error_popup(); does this make anymore sense to you. Now I understand that you cant call javascript from within php. wot would you recommend as an alternative. I dont have a button or anything that I want to press, just want to call the function so it can open a popup window. Regards Garth "Ben Ramsey" <lists@benramsey.com> wrote in message news:41864986.60101@benramsey.com... > Garth Hapgood - Strickland wrote: > > by saying ? > > > > echo error_popup(); > > or > > print error_popup; > > As someone mentioned, you cannot call a javascript function from within > PHP. What is meant by client side/server side is this: PHP is processed > on the server before sending any content to the browser; that's > server-side. Then, the server sends the HTML output of the PHP script to > the browser. Any javascript you have in the output is enacted in the > browser (client-side). > > So, you want your PHP to output the javascript just like it might output > HTML: > > i.e. > > echo '<script type="text/javascript">'; > echo 'function error_popup() { newwin = > window.open("error_popup.php","sss","height=470,width=450") > }'; > echo '</script>'; > echo '<input type="button" onclick="error_popup()">'; > > Sounds to me like you need to go back and revisit the introductory pages > of the PHP manual. Take a look at > <http://www.php.net/introduction> and > follow the subsequent pages to read more about PHP and what it can do. > It'll also take you through a tutorial that's fairly helpful. > > -- > Regards, > Ben Ramsey > http://benramsey.com > > --------------------------------------------------- > Atlanta PHP - http://www.atlphp.org/ > The Southeast's premier PHP community. > ---------------------------------------------------