using a link to submit values for a query

rem736

without the use of javascript, is it possible to click on a link and send the id of the link to php for doing a mysql query?

what i am going for is two css boxes, the first one being popluated with questions from a database. this can be easily done when the page loads. and i've gotten this far already. when i click on a question, what i want to happen is for the id of the clicked question to be sent to php so that it does a second query, retrieving the answer associated with the id from a database.

i know that i can load both the questions and answers simultaneously when the page loads, but the amount of data in the answer portion may be really large if there are a fair amount of questions.

ahundiak

Not really. It's easy enough to add an id value to an href link but that will cause the server to regenerate the entire page. Which is what you seem to be trying to avoid. At least I think you just want the answer to come back and display itself somewhere by the question.

Gonna take a bit of javascript to do that.

rem736

thanks. i just thought that since

<a href="#" onClick="javascript:function_name">link</a>

can activate a javascript function that something similar can be done in php.

Weedpacket

If it could then browsers wouldn't need Javascript.

Javascript runs on the client, PHP runs on the server.

Kudose

You might find this page interesting rem.

http://www.somecoders.com/2006/04/retrieving-database-information-with-ajax-php-and-mysql/