How to load a form

[yoda699]

Hi people,

I have a page with a form for comments. It works great.
However, I want to only load the actual form, if the user actually decided to press on the link "Post your comment".

I want the form to open up in the same page. I've seen this done with Javascript, but is it possible to do in php?

Thanks

[xxdalexx]

PHP is a server side, not user side language. The only way to do it is to assign a new variable and write an if statement, like $post = 0. Then the if statement if ($post == "1") {blah blah} then point the link to the same page and add a &post=1 in the url. Doing it this way basically refreshes the page then shows the comment, if you want it instantaneous with out reloading the page you need java.

Hope this helps.
-Dale

[rokchik]

<a href="?c=true">Click here to post a comment</a>
<?php
if ($_GET['c'] = "true") {
?>


// Your form here


<?php 
} 
?>

[xxdalexx]

Like I said before, your code requires the page to reload, its not instant.

[bradgrafelman]

I think what you're looking for is AJAX; this uses Javascript requests to send/receive information to/from your webserver (in the background, without refreshing the page).