Button to execute a function?

[Anon]

How do I setup a button on a webpage to call a php function?
Is it possible to just put the <??> code in the onclick method or is something else needed?

I'm trying to setup a dynamic table of database from a back-end database and have a button for each row to delete that particular row.

[interactive]

if it submits to a page yes but you cant do like in javascript, because php is server side sorry...hth

[Anon]

As interactive says, PHP is server-side.
If you're deleting a row from the database, Javascript won't work, 'cos that's client-side.

What you could do is wrap the whole table in a form. Then, for your button on each row, use

<input type="submit" name="killrow$i" value="Delete this row">

where $i is the number of that particular row.

Then when you process the form, look to see which of the "killrow$i" variables is set, and that will tell you which row to delete.

Alternatively, instead of a form submit, use a link instead of a button, and then have $i in the URL. To the processing script it will look like a form GET.

One could have a form on each row, and add a hidden field in which to store $i, and then the submit buttons can all have the same name, but that breaks the HTML spec (tables contain either thead, tbody, or tr elements, not form elements).