Whats wrong with this code???

[Anon]

<form>
<font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000000">Subject:</font><br><input type=text name=subject1><p>
<font face="Arial" size="2" color="#000000">News Message:</font><br><textarea name=text1 cols=70 rows=10></textarea><br>
<input type="submit" name="btn" value="Submit News" onClick="<?php submit_news(); ?>">
</form>

<?php

function submit_news(){

$file = fopen('../news_posts.htm', 'a');
fwrite($file, "<p><font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=2><b> $subject1 </b></font></p>\n");
fwrite($file, "<p><font face=\"Verdana, Arial\" size=2> $text1 <br></font></p><hr width=80% size=1 color=Yellow>\n");
fclose($file);

}
?>

it simply font write the subject and text in the news_posts.htm file, but the font code does write it self in the file, why!?!?!?

[Anon]

Think about what happens here. The browser requests a page (what you have here). Ther server sees that it has a php extension so it invokes the php interpreter to parse the page and run any php scripts. The server then sends the response back to the browser as HTML At that point, php is done and gone.

Now back at the browser you have an onclick event in teh HTML. Keep in mind that onclick is JAVASCRIPT. So when the user clicks on the button, the javascript interpreter tries to run what??? It knows nothing about php, it's on the browser, php is long gone.

You can to one of two things. Either run a JAVASCRIPT function from the onclick event, or POST the form to another php page. You can't run php on the browser.

[pmt2k]

try this

fwrite($file, "<p>".$subject1."</p>\n");
fwrite($file, "<p>".$text1."<br></p><hr width=80% size=1 color=Yellow>\n");

[Anon]

OK Thanks!!