how to call a php function onclick

[Anon]

hello,

i have the following code and i would like to know how to call a php function when i press on the send btton

<?
function f1(){....}

print "<form action=\"home3.php\" method=\"POST\" name=\"send\">";

print "<input type=submit value=\"send\" onclick=\"f1()\"";

print "</form>";
?>

but the function call doesn't work,
please solve my problem.

?>

[Anon]

if f1() is a PHP function it won't work. PHP runs on the server, not the browser. If you want it to run on the browser, write it in Javascript.

[turrets]

actualy.. if you really want to.. you can write it in PHPscript.... I think there is a plugin for both IE and Netscape that you could link from the page.....

But.... javascript is the easiest and best solution.

[theslinky]

Yep, like Grumbler and Mark mentioned: it's server side and you cannot really mix the two very well.

BUT: you can have the form pass a variable=value pair to home.php and inside home.php, you can look for certain values of the variable and trigger functions that way.

e.g.

in you HTML:

<form action="home.php" method=POST>
<input type="command" value="f1">
<input type=submit value="Call f1()">
</form>

in your PHP:

<?php

function f1() {
...
}

if($_POST['command'] == "f1") {
function f1();
}
?>

if you will have to call more than just f1, consider using a switch statement to compare multiple possible values for the $command variable.

-sridhar