cookies and variables

[Anon]

Hi, I'm new and confused about where you can and can't mix HTML with PHP... or do they just don't mix?

I can't seem to get this right - pls help...

<a href="/" onmouseclick="<?php
$shade=5;
setcookie($shade);
?>">click here to change the shade!"</a>

is this the right way to set variables through a mouse click?

Thanks for your help!

[Anon]

Hi Eliza,

PHP processes the page before it is displayed, therefore, the HTML outputted would look like this:

<a href="/" onmouseclick="">.."</a>

If you want to set a cookie with a mouse click, you need to call a URL with a script in it, like so:

<a href="setshade.php?shade=5">..</a>

In setshade.php, you'd have the following:

if (isset($shade)) {
setcookie(...);
}

It sounds like you need a more general introduction to PHP, so I'd recommend browsing around the tutorials a bit.

Kind Regards,

David Grant