Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question OT

2009-01-26 Thread Carlos Medina
tedd schrieb: At 11:56 AM +0100 1/25/09, Carlos Medina wrote: Hi Ashley, yes this is the right answer. The Problem is not a PHP Question but a programming question. To be clear: i think, the Problem can you solve, if you get two or tree books or tutorials about the programming language. You

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-26 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:03:20AM -0600, Micah Gersten wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: snip In case this has yet to be answered to your satisfaction... Your page will *have* to reload when the user presses the button, but the majority of content can look the same, except for the content

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-26 Thread Bastien Koert
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.comwrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:03:20AM -0600, Micah Gersten wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: snip In case this has yet to be answered to your satisfaction... Your page will *have* to reload when the user presses

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-26 Thread Jim Lucas
Bastien Koert wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Paul M Foster pa...@quillandmouse.comwrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:03:20AM -0600, Micah Gersten wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: snip In case this has yet to be answered to your satisfaction... Your page will *have* to reload when the

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-26 Thread Micah Gersten
Paul M Foster wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:03:20AM -0600, Micah Gersten wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: snip In case this has yet to be answered to your satisfaction... Your page will *have* to reload when the user presses the button, but the majority of content can look the

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-26 Thread Paul M Foster
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:53:55PM -0600, Micah Gersten wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: snip Please show me how *without Javascript* and *only with PHP* you can change the content on a page interactively as the user described *without* reloading the whole page. Xajax contains Javascript,

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-26 Thread Christopher W
Kevin, Your link, with some modifications to fit my site layout, worked just as I was hoping for. Thank you very much. -- Kevin Waterson ke...@phpro.org wrote in message news:20090126092451.7aab63ff.ke...@phpro.org... Sorry, I am also new to the etiquette of these mail lists. Hope this

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-26 Thread Micah Gersten
Paul M Foster wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 12:53:55PM -0600, Micah Gersten wrote: Paul M Foster wrote: snip Please show me how *without Javascript* and *only with PHP* you can change the content on a page interactively as the user described *without* reloading the whole

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-25 Thread Carlos Medina
Michael Kubler schrieb: The easiest way would be to use GET parameters (i.e data in the actual URL). There are a number of ways you can structure a HTML link to get what you want. You can have something basic (but not very elegant looking), like a href=index.php?page=HomeHome/a Then in

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-25 Thread Carlos Medina
Christopher W schrieb: Mr. Kubler, Thank you for the help. I have to admit, I am still in over my head, I think. Perhaps I should just stick to static pages... Anyway what I was attempting to do, in the full picture, was be able to just switch the text in the text area without actually

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-25 Thread Ashley Sheridan
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 10:51 +0100, Carlos Medina wrote: Michael Kubler schrieb: The easiest way would be to use GET parameters (i.e data in the actual URL). There are a number of ways you can structure a HTML link to get what you want. You can have something basic (but not very

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question OT

2009-01-25 Thread Carlos Medina
Hi Ashley, yes this is the right answer. The Problem is not a PHP Question but a programming question. To be clear: i think, the Problem can you solve, if you get two or tree books or tutorials about the programming language. You should *try* to solve the problem self and then to post a

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-25 Thread tedd
At 2:29 AM -0500 1/25/09, Christopher W wrote: My problem is that I can't figure out how to get the link-click to assign the value to the variable. I didn't try any php for that end because I really didn't know where to begin. It sounds to me like you're trying to create a smart menu. Perhaps

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question OT

2009-01-25 Thread tedd
At 11:56 AM +0100 1/25/09, Carlos Medina wrote: Hi Ashley, yes this is the right answer. The Problem is not a PHP Question but a programming question. To be clear: i think, the Problem can you solve, if you get two or tree books or tutorials about the programming language. You should *try* to

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question OT

2009-01-25 Thread Jason Pruim
On Jan 25, 2009, at 9:19 AM, tedd wrote: At 11:56 AM +0100 1/25/09, Carlos Medina wrote: Hi Ashley, yes this is the right answer. The Problem is not a PHP Question but a programming question. To be clear: i think, the Problem can you solve, if you get two or tree books or tutorials about

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-25 Thread Jason Pruim
On Jan 24, 2009, at 11:06 PM, Christopher W wrote: At least I hope it is simple... I am trying to get an HTML menu link to set a variable's value. For example, when a user clicks the Home button on my page it would cause $page = home; or clicking the About Us button will set

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-25 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:40:08AM -0500, Christopher W wrote: Mr. Kubler, Thank you for the help. I have to admit, I am still in over my head, I think. Perhaps I should just stick to static pages... Anyway what I was attempting to do, in the full picture, was be able to just switch

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-25 Thread Paul M Foster
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:29:50AM -0500, Christopher W wrote: Sorry, I am also new to the etiquette of these mail lists. Anyway what I was attempting to do, in the full picture, was be able to just switch the text in the text area without actually changing pages. For example, if the user

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-25 Thread Kevin Waterson
Sorry, I am also new to the etiquette of these mail lists. Hope this will get you started, http://www.phpro.org/tutorials/Introduction-to-PHP-templating.html Kevin http://phpro.org -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-25 Thread Jim Lucas
Christopher W wrote: At least I hope it is simple... I am trying to get an HTML menu link to set a variable's value. For example, when a user clicks the Home button on my page it would cause $page = home; or clicking the About Us button will set $page=about_us; etc. I think this should be

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-25 Thread Richard Lynch
You may or may not find this worth reading: http://richardlynch.blogspot.com/2007/07/php-in-html.html Bottom line is that what you are trying to do can't be done in PHP. You'll have to resort to Javascript and DIV tags with display: none; switching to display: block; -- Some people ask for

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-25 Thread Micah Gersten
Paul M Foster wrote: snip In case this has yet to be answered to your satisfaction... Your page will *have* to reload when the user presses the button, but the majority of content can look the same, except for the content you want to change. /snip This is absolutely not true. You can

[PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-24 Thread Christopher W
At least I hope it is simple... I am trying to get an HTML menu link to set a variable's value. For example, when a user clicks the Home button on my page it would cause $page = home; or clicking the About Us button will set $page=about_us; etc. I think this should be fairly simple but being

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-24 Thread Michael Kubler
The easiest way would be to use GET parameters (i.e data in the actual URL). There are a number of ways you can structure a HTML link to get what you want. You can have something basic (but not very elegant looking), like a href=index.php?page=HomeHome/a Then in your index.php code you'd

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-24 Thread Lars Torben Wilson
2009/1/24 Christopher W cwei...@adelphia.net: At least I hope it is simple... I am trying to get an HTML menu link to set a variable's value. For example, when a user clicks the Home button on my page it would cause $page = home; or clicking the About Us button will set $page=about_us; etc.

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-24 Thread Christopher W
Sorry, I am also new to the etiquette of these mail lists. Anyway what I was attempting to do, in the full picture, was be able to just switch the text in the text area without actually changing pages. For example, if the user clicks About Us (from the home page) the page doesn't change, just

Re: [PHP] New PHP User with a simple question

2009-01-24 Thread Christopher W
Mr. Kubler, Thank you for the help. I have to admit, I am still in over my head, I think. Perhaps I should just stick to static pages... Anyway what I was attempting to do, in the full picture, was be able to just switch the text in the text area without actually changing pages. For