get parents id?

v3nt

hello - just wondering if there's a way of get the html elements id with php(or similar) and using it inside a query?

  <td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="200" id="cell1" onmousedown="openSubContentWindow(this.id)">
	<? echo $myElementsId ?>
    </td>

any help appreciated!

NogDog

Not sure I understand. Presumably there is something more going on that what you have explained. In your example, you have just typed the id value, so why do you need to programatically need to determine what it is? (Like I said, I suspect there's more to this story, but you need to explain it to me.)

nrg_alpha

Your code sample is problematic if you are trying to get the Id from myElements.. PHP does not work this way.. keep in mind that Javascript is client side while PHP is server side. Javascript and PHP is hard to get them to play nice due to this nature.

Instead of PHP (in your <? echo $myElementsId ?> line), you would be better off using javascript to seek out this id and print it that way (using only javascript for this segment).

Lastly, I noticed you are using short tag notation in your php code... tisk tisk

bpat1434

If the webpage source is XHTML you could load it up as an XML document and then do a search for that node, and then get the parent node. It may also work on HTML pages as well, but I know it will work on XHTML pages.

Drakla

It's not just as simple as this, is it?

	// meanwhile inside a table somewhere...

for ($i = 0; $i <10; $i++)
{
	$id = 'cell'.$i;
	echo '<td bgcolor="#FFFFFF" width="200" id="'.$id.'" onmousedown="openSubContentWindow(this.id)">';
    echo 'My id is: '.$id;
	echo '</td>';
}

If you're generating the page with php then you're in control.

bpat1434

But say you're searching for a specific element, and you're not sure what the parent div is, but you want to modify it? Or say you're searching for a link, but you want all the HTML around it (so everything in the <p> or <div> block). Then you'd want to search for the element, then get the parent.

My interpretation of the question of the OP was that they were reading something like an HTML page from file_get_contents() and trying to get the parent div of a specific element. In this case, looping through wouldn't be the most efficient way to figure it out (though it could be done). Otherwise, every other answer in this thread is sufficient to get the parent. But without a reply from the OP, not much we can do but speculate.