php as an included file in html

Anon

I would know if it's possible doing this:
use a .php file as cointainer for functions.
I mean (writing in english):

-I have a standard .htm page with a <link ... mouse.php> tag between the <head></head> tags.
-In the body 2 textboxes and 1 button
-Pressing the button I send a value from textboxA to mouse.php that process it
-mouse.php sends the result to textboxB

But I don't want to use other pages than the one who have the controls i mentioned before. With this i mean that when I press the button no pages are opened. Only the data are sent and received in the same page. mouse.php should be only a sort of extension. The scope is: using php only to access databases (it's very powerfull) and to send data back to standard htm pages.
I was thinking that javascript is able to write the values of the single controls with the function control.value="Hello". Is php able to do something like that?

sarahk

Maybe oneday!
For now you may have to have a hidden frame which gets mouse.php and use your button like a hyperlink with the target as the hidden frame. The frame will have an onload event to reference textboxb and give it the new data. I don't blame you for wanting to avoid page reloads but javascript and html can't do it alone.

If your users are set on IE then you could use mouse.php to output an xml file and use javascript to get the xml file and reload it but that's getting quite tricky and probably over complicates a simple problem.

Anon

thank you a lot sarah it is a very good idea.
in the meanwhile i did this (and it seems to be a very very good way to preceed):

when i press the button i submit the data I need. in the 'press' sequence not only i submit the data but i also recall the page with window.open.
so it will be: window.open('page.php','Hello','properties')

with properties i masquerade the window doing it very little and saying: Retrieving database data...
Beside this little window there's the php code!!!

So it's a way to achieve the target i had before with a little "plus" now. And it's also usefull because the little window doesn't close before having submitted the data in the other page. (I obtain a reference to the parent window with var xxx = window.parent).

function onwinload(){
var xxx = window.opener;
xxx.test1.value = '<?php echo ("Hello"); ?>';
window.close();}

It's great because the calling window DOESN'T refresh and takes all the values that the little win sends to it in real time (also the database data that you retrieve).