Assigning table cell PHP value

[AnarchistX]

Hello everyone,

I'm having trouble assigning my table cell a value that my php page can interpret.

What I'm trying to do is, when a user clicks on a specific table cell, a value is passed to the php page that uses switch/case commands to determine which cell was clicked.

This is part of my table cell code. I tried using a hidden form to give it a value but it didn't work.

<table width="231" height="47" border="1" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" bordercolor="#36532E" bgcolor="#CFC38B"
onmouseover="changeIn1();" onmouseout="changeOut1();" id="changer1"
onclick = "getData('data.php','targetDiv');">
<input type ="hidden" name="buttonID" value="1" />

Here is part of my data.php page:

  switch ($_GET['buttonID']) { 

case '1': 
  echo $text1; 
  break; 

case '2':
  echo $text2;
  break;

default: 
  break; 

On my form page I used

<? include('data.php') ?>

To access data.php

Is my hidden form field in the wrong place? Is there another way to do it other then using forms?

Do I have declare the table cell a form before giving it hidden fields?

Sorry for any noobish questions and thanks for any help.

[epimeth]

what is getData() ????

[AnarchistX]

Oh sorry, I forgot to explain. I was learning ajax along with javascript and wrote a function called getData that goes to the data.php that communicates with the database to get my text files.

	function getData(dataSource, divID)
	{
		if(XMLHttpRequestObject){
			var obj = document.getElementById(divID);
			XMLHttpRequestObject.open("GET", dataSource);

		XMLHttpRequestObject.onreadystatechange = function()
		{
			if (XMLHttpRequestObject.readyState == 4 &&
				XMLHttpRequestObject.status == 200) {
					obj.innerHTML = XMLHttpRequestObject.responseText;
		    }
		}

		XMLHttpRequestObject.send(null);
	}

}

[AnarchistX]

Could I somehow just add another variable inside the getData function call and send it to the getData function and have THAT send the variable to the data.php page somehow?