php works server side. you cannot get user to run anything in php without
resubmitting (posting or whatever) ... you need javascript if this is
something you can do client-side, if not you'll have to live with some sort
of resubmit.
Tim Ward
Senior Systems Engineer
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Voth [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: 13 March 2001 18:23
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [?] Call a function with a button/link click?
>
>
>
> I am wondering how to call a function simply by clicking a button
> or a hyperlink?
>
> I would like to use this technique to avoid passing things in a link
>
> Presently, I use this technique:
> <a href="../php/delete_something.php?tid=$thing_id">Delete</a>
>
> I would like to clean things up by having one central or
> common include
> file and just call functions out of it. The problem lies in
> the passing
> of variables to that function - how to set something up so
> that the user
> can click on something to activate that function with a variable.
>
> Psuedocode:
>
> if( buttonclick )
> delete_thing($thing_id)
>
> Am I making sense?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> John
>
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