[RESOLVED] php and javascript

Dedix

I am trying to make a javasript dropdown menu with php variables. I have no clue how to pass variables to this menu from an text database file via php. I have a external js file.

The links will look like this:

link1 --> example.com/index.php?link_id=1
link2 --> example.com/index.php?link_id=2

etc. until link ids are available in the database file

Any help would be appreciated.

bradgrafelman

What does the database file look like? If I understand you correctly, you'd just need to parse the database file to get the different options (into an array more than likely) and use something like [man]foreach/man to loop through the array of dropdown values, [man]echo/man'ing each out to the HTML as you go.

Dedix

bradgrafelman wrote:
What does the database file look like? If I understand you correctly, you'd just need to parse the database file to get the different options (into an array more than likely) and use something like [man]foreach/man to loop through the array of dropdown values, [man]echo/man'ing each out to the HTML as you go.

Here is a part of my menu.js file:

startMainMenu("",0,0,2,0,0)
mainMenuItem("elements_page1_hnavbar_b1",".png",27,144,"javascript:;","","home",2,2,"elements_page1_hnavbar_plain");
mainMenuItem("elements_page1_hnavbar_b2",".png",27,144,"javascript:;","","about us",2,2,"elements_page1_hnavbar_plain");
mainMenuItem("elements_page1_hnavbar_b3",".png",27,144,"javascript:;","","services",2,2,"elements_page1_hnavbar_plain");
mainMenuItem("elements_page1_hnavbar_b4",".png",27,144,"javascript:;","","news / special offers",2,2,"elements_page1_hnavbar_plain");
endMainMenu("",0,0);

startSubmenu("elements_page1_hnavbar_b3","elements_page1_hnavbar_menu",144);
submenuItem("SubMenuText 1","javascript:;","","elements_page1_hnavbar_plain");
submenuItem("SubMenuText 2","javascript:;","","elements_page1_hnavbar_plain");
submenuItem("SubMenuText 3","javascript:;","","elements_page1_hnavbar_plain");
endSubmenu("elements_page1_hnavbar_b3");

And this is my php code that generates links and i would like to use it with that js code i have just quoted. So I want the $ma[1] variable instead of SubMenuText 1-2-3... and so on.

$file=file($services_db);
$s=sizeof($file);
for($i=0;$i<$s;$i++){
$ma=explode("|",$file[$i]);

$menuitems.='&nbsp;- <a href ="index.php?mode=services&serviceID='.$ma[0].'">'.$ma[1].'</a><br>';
}

Please if you write, use examples cause i have been told i should check http://www.javascriptkit.com/javatutors/externalphp.shtml site, but I don't understand correctly how I can carry out this in my case.