Stuck with PHP and Javascript

ppowell

I am having a potential PHP/Javascript/HTML conflict going on in my code that I simply can't resolve - been wracking my brain for a good hour over this one and have come up with no good solution.

My resulting HTML tag MUST look like this:

<a href=index.php?section=person&action=delete_dept&id=1 onClick="return isOKDelete('Are you sure you wish to delete Department \"Phil\"?')">

Where

$deptName = 'Phil'
and
$section = 'person'
and
$action = 'delete_dept'

I can't figure out how to write my PHP code to ensure that that HTML tag will look like the above example and work in a dynamically-generated Javascript function, ALL at the very same time!

Help appreciated, this is a showstopper for my app!

Thanx
Phil

batman

Is this what you mean?

<?
$deptName = $_POST["name"]; 
$section = $_POST["section"]; 
$action = $_POST["action"]; 
?>

<a href=index.php?section=<?echo "$section";?>&action=<?echo "$action";?>&id=1 onClick="return isOKDelete('Are you sure you wish to delete Department <?echo "$deptName";?>?')">DELETE</a>

Let me know,

ppowell

No, sorry that's not close at all to what I need:


$html .= "<a href....>";

return $html;

The call to create the <a href> HTML/Javascript tag is set to a variable $html in a class method and returned, so I can't do what you request since there is no direct echo, I'm afraid.

Phil

batman

I'm not sure if i'm clear on what exactly you want.

<? 
$deptName = $_POST["name"];  

$section = $_POST["section"];  

$action = $_POST["action"];  

$html .= "<a href=index.php?section=$section&action=$action&id=1 onClick=\"return isOKDelete('Are you sure you wish to delete Department $deptName?')\">DELETE</a>";

echo "$html"; // should give you the correct link

Is that close? LOL

ppowell

Close, but still not according to business rules..

How they want it would be something like this:

<? 
foreach ($_POST as $key => $val) if (!isset(${$key})) ${$key} = $val; 

$html .= "<a href=index.php?section=$section&action=$action&id=$deptID onClick=\"return isOKDelete('Are you sure you wish to delete Department "$deptName"?')\">DELETE</a>";

echo "$html"; // will give you the wrong link as it will break in PHP - switch to '' and will break in Javascript

batman

You dont need to change to ' 's as long as you put a \ in front of the "s

This should work as is:

$html .= "<a href=index.php?section=$section&action=$action&id=$deptID onClick=\"return isOKDelete('Are you sure you wish to delete Department \"$deptName\"?')\">DELETE</a>";

ppowell

I can't do that, when I do that this is my "View Source" stuff:

<a href=index.php?section=person&action=delete_dept&id=6 onSubmit="return isOKDelete('Are you sure you wish to delete \"Phil\?)>

The closing \" and the ' and " are all lobbed off causing Javascript errors.

Phil

PS: I am using Netscape 7.1 and Mozilla 1.0 here at work. PHP 4.3.2

ppowell

A better example:

$msg = "return isOKDelete('Upon clicking this you will remove the Department \"" . $deptName . "\" are you sure you want to do this?')";
$html .= "onClick=\"$msg\">Delete</a></td>\n </tr>";
return $html;

results in

<a href=index.php?section=person&action=delete_dept&id=8 onClick="return isOKDelete('Upon clicking this you will remove the Department "Joe are you sure you want to do this?')>

batman

What if you were to do something like this:

$html .= "<a href=index.php?section=$section&action=$action&id=$deptID";

$click = 'onClick="return isOKDelete('Are you sure you wish to delete Department "$deptName"?')">DELETE</a>';

echo "$html$click";

dopey

I think the onClick is getting confused as to where it ends with all those " going on :-) Try using

&quot;

e.g.


$msg = "return isOKDelete('Upon clicking this you will remove the Department &quot;" . $deptName . "&quot; are you sure you want to do this?')";

$html .= "onClick=\"$msg\">Delete</a></td>\n </tr>"; 
return $html;