Changing images w/o reloading page? How is this done?

[bdk]

Does PHP have the ability to reload portions of a page w/o using frames? I found a page that does what I would like to do, but it calls the PHP as a javascript.

<script TYPE="text/javascript" LANGUAGE="JavaScript"
SRC="http://www.mytemplatestorage.com/codes/interface.php?aff=bdk&cols=2&rows=2&skin=21&sadult=off&sp=0&bgcolor=%23FFFFFF&type=wt&category=0&pr=yes&src=yes&nt=yes"></script>

I took a look at the resulting page and it looks like normal html post php from a dbase query, which I can, but I don't want the page to reload every time.

Does anyone know how this works or if there is a better way to accomplish it?

Thanks much.

-bdk

[Norman_Graham]

Hi Bdk

What that script does is call some JS code by using PHP to pass parameters to a JS script which resides in another file. It's just a way of maintaining state, something which PHP is particularly good at.

PHP is, however, server-side. It can't reload a page unless the user clicks on 'reload'. What you have to do is use JavaScript event handlers, which of course you can do in a PHP file.

PHP and JavaScript work very well together, you just have to be aware of what happens in the browser and what happens on the server.

HTH

Norm

[bdk]

Thanks Norm.. I've been looking for a reason (excuse) to learn javascript.

-bdk