RE: [PHP-WIN] PHP 'include' function

Mathews, could you dig out that script please? I think I might need it. Bikes -----Original Message----- From: Tom Mathews Cc: php-windows@lists.php.net Sent: 2/12/01 11:02 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] PHP 'include' function I'm going to sound like a database freak, but my solution to nearly all 'dynamic' pages is to pull everything out of a database - My implementation would probably be four fields - ID, Name (to display in the select list), text and image. You query the db to get a list of 'Name's and then use the ID to pull out the relevent image and text. By the way, it is possible to use javascript variables in php - I've got some script I can dig out to show you how if you need it. Tom John Morrison wrote: > Hi. > > I have just discovered server side scripting and am trying > to get to grips with it using PHP4 with Xitami on Windows > Me. Straight away, on my first project, it looks as though > I have found a problem I am not going to solve without > help. > > I have an HTML form with an Option Select drop down list > which displays choices of which JPEG file to load into an > <IMG> picturebox. After selecting an option, clicking a > button runs a Javascript function which displays the image, > changing the previous picture. So far so good, but here is > the problem. I also wish to display a caption and > descriptive paragraph or two in an adjacent scrollable > <TEXTAREA>. > > I thought a good way would be to have a text file for each > picture on the server and display the appropriate one as > required. But, so far, I have not managed to find any file > operation capabilities in Javascript. > > My next thought was to use the PHP "include" function, or > some other file reading technique, but I have not found a > satisfactory way to pass the filename to PHP. A Javascript > variable naturally cannot be passed to a PHP function so I > had Javascript copy the file pathname to the TextArea with > the hope of getting my include function to pick it up from > there. But I have not succeeded. PHP does not like the > dots in "$captionpath = > Document.FormName.TextAreaName.Value;" and simply removes > them. > > So I abandoned this and tried doing it completely outside > of Javascript. I have tried everything I can think of > including a rigmarole which involved the self-submit method > <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="<?php print('$php_self'); > ?>">. > Without going into detail, I did manage to display the > caption but I had other problems which made this avenue > seem unproductive, so I did not persue it. For example, > instead of just a clean change of the IMG and TextArea > contents the whole page was reloaded from the server and > repositioned at "Top of Page". Apart from the slowness of > this, it looked massively clumsy. > > Am I missing the obvious?? > > Regards > John Morrison > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net <<ATT00196.txt>>