[RESOLVED] is there a way?

rbblue8

Is there a way to excute or evan call a function my clicking a link??

I ask this b/c I see all of these "admin" scripts out there where all you do is click a name and it show you information basied upon that link that you just clicked. I would assume it would be would be some kind of function but i'm not sure.

Basically what I'm looking to do is keep the same page layout but have the content change as they click links, also would like the content to load in specfic places in a page. I really do not want to use an Iframe. Any thoughts on this?

sapoxgn

rbblue8 wrote:
Is there a way to excute or evan call a function my clicking a link??

I ask this b/c I see all of these "admin" scripts out there where all you do is click a name and it show you information basied upon that link that you just clicked. I would assume it would be would be some kind of function but i'm not sure.

Basically what I'm looking to do is keep the same page layout but have the content change as they click links, also would like the content to load in specfic places in a page. I really do not want to use an Iframe. Any thoughts on this?

You will need javascript to do it, try googling for ajax too 🙂

rbblue8

can you give an example of the java-script?

The only thing i really found on google was calling a function that was defined with html... not php.

rbblue8

http://www.phpbuilder.com/board/showpost.php?p=2139932&postcount=3

that's what i would really like to do.. however when i add this into my link tag it does not call the function. Perhaps I need to put some kind of if statment into my code to made it work.

thorpe

A simple example using the method in that post.

echo "<a href=\"?func=hello\">say hello</a>";
echo "<a href=\"?func=goodbye\">say goodbye</a>";
if (isset($_GET['func'])) {
  if ($_GET['func'] == "hello") {
    hello();
  elseif ($_GET['func'] == "goodbye") {
    goodbye();
  } else {
    echo "no function by that name";
  }
}
function hello() {
  echo "hello...";
}
function goodbye() {
  echo "goodbye...";
}

rbblue8

Hey guys..

Just thought I would post this for I have spend several days doing this and finally found an answer.

What i needed to do was call a php function by clicking a link on a page. Simple right?? wrong.. Everyone on here says to everyone that it can not be done... when if fact "it can".

here is how i did it.

<a href="?Event=true>

^---html code

and in my php script i had an if statment with this

if($_POST['Event']==true)Function();

which then went excuted the Function within that script.

Feel free to shoot that up

rbblue8

thanks. it's all working now 😉