calling functions from clicked event

[Anon]

I'm making a customer list that's just an output of a select * from customers.

Then I want the user to be able to click a row and that calls a php function that starts another query to display the clicked customer details.

Here's what I got so far. The onclick will only call a javascript function. Is there a better way to do this?

while ($line = mysql_fetch_array($result, MYSQL_ASSOC)) {
print "<tr>\n";
$count = 0;
foreach ($line as $col_value) {
if ($count == 0):

print "<td><a href='' onclick='printValue($col_value)'>$col_value</a></td>";
$count = 1;
else:
print "<td>$col_value</td>";
endif;
}
print "</tr>\n";
}

[theslinky]

You DO know that you cannot call a PHP function from javascript right? So in this case printValue is a javascript function I assume?

And i assume you are going to have the php print out the javascript code for printValue()?

And also, in your javascript printValue function, make sure you don't call a return; because otherwise the browser will try to load it as a URL or print the value to a blank page :-)

You can always make it refresh to a new page to display the details:

print "<a href=\"details.php?name=" . $col_value . "\">" . $col_value . "</a>";

-sridhar