[RESOLVED] showing and hiding elements on the fly

[MattG]

I'm trying to have a feature so that members can show and hide items 'on-the-fly' by clicking a simple link which will change a value in a field for the session.

i set whether to show or not by altering this field so true or false for whether it should be hidden...

$_SESSION["hidden"] = false;

And for the actual code in the page I have this...

if($_SESSION[golduser] AND !$_SESSION[hidden]) {
	for ($i = 1; $i <= $db->getField(numofitems); $i++) {
		$row_color2 = ($row_count2 % 2) ? $color3 : $color4;
		echo "<div style=\"background: ".$row_color2.";\">Item {$i}</div>";
		$row_count2++;
	}
}

if I manually set hidden in the file and refresh it works perfectly but can anyone suggest a better way to change the value without sending the value and using Header(Location: blabla.php) to reload the page? Or is that my best option?

[stolzyboy]

if you are doing it PHP-based, you are going to need the page refreshed...

if you want to do it w/o a refresh, you'll have to use some css/js type integration...

hth,
stolzyboy

[MattG]

okey dokey, thanks stolzyboy