onsubmit/onclick?

[greenber]

I have a need to take a HTML variable and apply it to a PHP variable as soon as an OnClick event occurs. How do I take a HTML name="fred" and turn that into a $fred on a click?

Thanks!

Ross

[weekender]

you can't do it "on a click" - php is a server side language, and so does all it's calculations before the page has finished loading on the client. Once the client has received the whole page, there is no more php done until the server receives a new request ie a page refresh or load.

so you'd need to reload the page/load another page to do this.

what are you trying to do? maybe somebody knows another way around this.

[maxpup979]

weekender is exaclty right. YOu are going to have to reload/refresh the page. However, you can use the JS to assign one value to another form value -- so that may fix the problem you are running into...but again, without knowing what you are trying to do, its going to be very tough for us to come up with a decent workaround

[greenber]

The line of code in question:

<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Answer"onclick="MM_showHideLayers('Layer1','','hide','Layer2','','show');alert('Press OK to Continue')"; >

There's a select, named "answer", in the form on layer1. I can access its value by answer.value in the onclick. $answer is used in layer2, but the onclick is processed before the actual submit and answer is not available until after the onclick is proccessed.

The Onsubmit, likewise.

Any ideas?