Re: PHP 'include' function

Alain << Why do you need javascript? >> Good question, but I have no satisfactory answer. I was just modifying "one I made earlier" (the only one) which happened to work that way, when I came across problems. I have got some good ideas here and feel a completely fresh start is going to be the best. I have arrived here straight from Visual Basic and am finding things a lot different. John In article <20010211093727.A11688@sonic.net>, Alain Samoun wrote: > Why do you need javascript? > Scenario: > 1 User selects jpeg image in list > 2 User press submit button > 3 Server receives selection and download jpeg with its text in html > Would that work for you? > Alain > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:19:38PM +0000, 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 >