Me too!
Gonzalo.
> Mathews, could you dig out that script please? I think I might need it.
> Bikes
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Mathews
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> To contact the list administrators, e-mail:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> <<ATT00196.txt>>
--
PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
