Re[2]: [PHP-WIN] PHP 'include' function

Me too! Gonzalo. > 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>>