How to grab variable from loop and pick up from another page

[GeekMom]

I'm trying to provide a method for users to edit their address book. I show a list of shipping addresses and buttons. The idea is that the user clicks on the button next to the address they want to edit.

I'm using an array to capture the variable needed. I'm putting the loop in a form so I can use a button to take that variable into a javascript function. In the function I will drop a cookie and go into another page for editing. In that second page, I would retrieve the entry to be edited and delete the cookie.

I thought this a great plan, except that it doesn't work. Nothing happens when the button is clicked. I have no clue why. Do I have a bug? Do I need a whole new plan. Can anyone advise? Below is the javascript function and the form containing the loop printing out shipping addresses.

Thanks for any direction or comments.

<script language="javascript">
var des;
function EditAddress(des){
alert(got this far);
<?php //drop a cookie holding des value
?>
document.AddressForm.action= '<?=$secure_address."/".$page_addressbooks ?>';
document.AddressForm.submit();
exit;
}
</script>

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" align="center">
<tr><td><br></td></tr>
<?php
$query = "SELECT * FROM addressbooks WHERE username = '$username'";
mysql_select_db($dbDatabase2,$GLOBALS['dbLinkSession']);
$result = mysql_query($query,$GLOBALS['dbLinkSession']);
if($result && (mysql_numrows($result) >1 )){
$i = 0;
while($data=mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
$i = $i + 1;
$description = $data['description'];
$des[$i] = $description;
$shipping_first_name = $data['shipping_first_name'];
$shipping_last_name = $data['shipping_last_name'];
// php other variable inserted here
?>
<tr><td><div align="center"><strong><?php echo $description ?> </strong></div></td><td><div align="center">
<input type="button" class="buttonControl1" value="Edit This Address" onClick="EditAddress('$des[$i]')" id="EditAddress">
</div></td></tr>
<tr><td><div align="center"><?php echo $shipping_first_name ?> </div></td><td><div align="left"></div></td></tr>
<tr><td><div align="center"><?php echo $shipping_last_name ?> </div></td><td><div align="center"></div></td></tr>
<?php }
} ?>
</table></form>

[dagon]

$des[$i] is outside of the php so you need to echo it like you do the other vars

[GeekMom]

I do appreciate your help.

I've tried every variation I can think of and I'm still stuck. Althought I don't know what the syntax would look like, I'm wondering again if there is another problem also preventing the code from working. Can you help me a bit more by telling what this bit of code should look like?

onClick="EditAddress('<?php echo $des[$i] ?>')"

[GeekMom]

My secondary problem was in the use of a reserved word for the name of my javascript function. sigh.

I've resolved the problem. For those who might be curious, I'm posting what I'm doing now.

This is now the line from the middle of the while loop, with direction to a javascript function.

<input type="button" class="buttonControl1" value="Edit This Address" onClick="EditAddressForm('<?php echo $des[$i]; ?>')" id="EditAddress">

And this is the javascript function which drops the cookie and redirects to another php page. I don't need a timer on the cookie because I'm expressly deleting it after use.

function EditAddressForm(des){
document.cookie = "address=des";
document.RegForm.action= '<?=$secure_address."/".$page_addressbooks."?p=update"?>';
document.RegForm.submit();
}