a question about links to php scripts

furtivefelon

hi, i have no idea about how to do a link on which when a user clicks, it does something in php.. such as increment a value to a variable or something like that.. thanks for helping!

drawmack

link to the page containing the php code the same way you would link to any other web page in html

furtivefelon

i looked around in the code library, there is one line of code in Calender Classes, under version 1.5.1, and on line 144 and 150, are the following:

<a href="' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?month=' . $last['month'] . '&year=' . $last['year'] . '"  style="text-decoration: none;">&lt;&lt;</a>

<a href="' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?month=' . $next['month'] . '&year=' . $next['year'] . '"  style="text-decoration: none;">&gt;&gt;</a>

i have trouble understanding what the lines meant..

drawmack

<a href="' . $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] . '?month=' . $last['month'] . '&year=' . $last['year'] . '"  style="text-decoration: none;">&lt;&lt;</a>

I'll explain this one and then we'll see if you can figure out the next one okay?

$_SERVER['PHP_SELF'] is simlpy the name of this script. Anytime you want a link of form to point back to the script it is generated from you should use this so that moving the file doesn't break the link or form.

$last is an associative array in the code

$last['month'] is either the name of the number of last month (It's impossible for me to tell which without seeing the code or a working version of the script)

$last['year'] is the number of the year.

So this would create a link that looks like this <a href="somepage.php?month=7&year=2003>&lt;&lt;</a>

Which would look like >>.