Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 08/30/07 03:48

Morlaath@gmail.com wrote:
> On Aug 29, 5:04 pm, "Steve" <no....@example.com> wrote:
>> "Steve" <no....@example.com> wrote in message
>>
>> news:V_lBi.82$tb5.58@newsfe12.lga...
>> || "Leoa" <leondria.bar...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>>
>> |news:1188422263.801132.124720@r34g2000hsd.googlegroups.com...
>> || Can you use javascript to activate a php function like so:
>> || <?php
>> || $tab="Tab.gif";
>> || function myfunction($txt)
>> || {
>> || $tab = $txt;
>> || echo($tab);
>> || }
>> ||
>> || ?>
>> || <div class="backg" onMouseOver="<? php myfunction("Tab3.gif"); ?>"
>> || STYLE="background-image: url(<?=$img_dir?>/images/<?php echo($tab);?
>> || > )"
>> ||
>> || I'm trying to dynamically change the tab button when the when the user
>> || mouse over the tab.
>> |
>> | php executes on the server. javascript (etc.) executes in the browser on
>> the
>> | client's pc. this is strickly a javascript endeavor. however, here's how
>> i'd
>> | think about it...
>> |
>> |
>> | <div mOverSrc="<?= $img_dir ?>/images/Tab3.gif"
>> | mResetSrc="<?= $img_dir ?>/images/<?= $tab ?>"
>> | onmouseover="this.style.backgroundImage = url(this.mOverSrc);"
>> | onmouseout="this.style.backgroundImage = url(this.mResetSrc);"
>> | >
>>
>> of course you'd want to add in:
>>
>> style="background-image:url(<?= $img_dir ?>/images/<?= $tab ?>);"
>>
>> so that the default image is displayed in the div when the page loads.
>
> I really don't see why people keep pointing out that php is server
> side and javascript is client-side, is if that makes it impossible to
> implement. JSP is server-side as well, and you can embed JSP scriplets
> and what not into javascript just fine. Just because code is server
> side doesn't mean it has to execute on the first pass (which seems to
> be what php does) .... i.e if I wanted to do something like this in
> JSP it would work just like you would expect.
>

Because Java Server Pages are Java - and have absolutely NOTHING to do
with JavaScript (except for the letters "J", "a", "v" and "a".

If you knew that, you wouldn't be posting this crap.

> <script>
> function foo() {
> <%
> String bar = "foobar";
>
> if(bar != null) { %>
> //do some javascript stuff
> <% } %>
> alert(<%=bar%>);
> etc.....
> }
> </script>
>
> <input type="button" value="penguins" onclick="foo();"/>
>
> Not that I'm saying you should switch to Java webapps especially since
> webhosts charge too much to run JBoss, Tomcat, etc and Java Struts or
> JSF is much harder to learn and implement. But .....
>

But that's exactly what you are saying. Even though you don't know crap.

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