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Posted by Randy Webb on 01/19/06 08:59
one man army said the following on 1/19/2006 1:46 AM:
> In article <1137652071.489010.277050@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> "Tony" <tony23@dslextreme.com> wrote:
>
>> ...
>>
>>> I need PHP to do the SQL query. The PHP SQL query is all set up, it
>>> works. I need to read the value from the INPUT to add to the SQL query.
>>> I have the value in javascript. How can I pass that single bit of data?
>>> perhaps I need to pass the var FROM javascript TO the PHP code block. Or
>>> else read the DOM element in the PHP as I originally asked.
>> ...
>> That said, I'll take a wild stab at an uninformed guess:
>>
>> document.getElementById('zipRaw_id').value = theValueIWantToSetItTo;
>> - that is - set the value of the <input>...
>>
>
> hmmm, that is the Javascript part. Perhaps I will expand on this..
>
> * I have a very simple HTML page, with a FORM, with an INPUT TEXT
> * there is a button that activates some javascript
> * the javascript causes this to happen
>
> // Create new JS element
> var jsel = document.createElement('SCRIPT');
> jsel.type = 'text/javascript';
> jsel.src = url;
jsel.src = url + '?' + document.getElementById('zipRaw_id').value;
And then have PHP read the queryString.
>
> // Append JS element (therefore executing the the PHP call)
> document.body.appendChild (jsel);
>
> url points to a PHP file! the appendChild has the effect of causing the
> script to be executed. Apparently the broswer thinks it is Javascript,
> so the javascript in it runs, but the suffix is .php, so the server sees
> it , and the PHP runs. Really, it works.
>
> The reason I did this is to run a MySQL query from PHP, based on a
> dynamic input value. But here is where I got stuck.. I can read the DOM
> element in javascript. I need the value in the PHP block. I thouht I
> would just try the DOM calls in PHP, but they read an HTML file, or else
> read 'html', but I don't know how to point the php call at the _workin_
> page; or alternatively, read the element in JS and pass it in SOMEHOW to
> the pHP code block.
>
> Questions and clarifications gladly made, I really want to make this
> work. thanks in advance
See Above.
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Randy
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