[RESOLVED] Php variables in Javascript rightclick menu

the_mysox1

Sorry if this is in the wrong area.

What i want to be able to do is allow the user to right click on a person and then they will see a context menu and be able to select things like edit delete and so on. i have all the names and addresses inside a database. I am still hit and missing and so not sure what to do. I can get this to show a menu and show everything up right without variables but i want the variable because i am doing this for a database that is going to have roughly 300+ contacts.

you will notice that there is a section that shows names and then a section with the menu part this is because i am still testing it out.

<html> 
<head> 
<link href="rightcontext.css" rel=STYLESHEET type="text/css"> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="rightcontext.js"></script> 
<title>Page1</title> 
<style type="text/css"> 
    body { 
    font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica; 
    font-size:12px; 
    font-weight:normal; 
    } 
</style> 
</head> 
<body> 
<? 
//first it connect to database then 
// This will take all info from database where row tutorial is $item and collects it into $data variable 

$data = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM email_contact_list WHERE emorpm ='Email'"); 
print ("Here is a list of all the email addresses in the database. <br><hr>"); 
// This creates a loop which will repeat itself until there are no more rows to select from the database. We getting the field names and storing them in the $row variable. This makes it easier to echo each field. 

while($row = mysql_fetch_array($data)){ 
echo $row['lastname']. "&nbsp;"; echo $row['firstname']. "&nbsp;"; 
if (isset($row['wifename']) && $row['wifename'] != NULL && $row['wifename'] != '') {  

    echo "&"; echo "&nbsp;"; echo $row['wifename']. "<br>";  

}  

else { 
    echo "<br>"; 
} 
if (isset($row['address']) && $row['address'] != NULL && $row['address'] != '') {  

    echo $row['address']. "<br>";  

}  

if (isset($row['city']) && $row['city'] != NULL && $row['city'] != '') {  

    echo $row['city']. "<br>";  

}  

if (isset($row['province']) && $row['province'] != NULL && $row['province'] != '') {  

    echo $row['province']. "<br>" ;  

}  

if (isset($row['pc']) && $row['pc'] != NULL && $row['pc'] != '') {  

    echo $row['pc']. "<br>";  

}  

if (isset($row['country']) && $row['country'] != NULL && $row['country'] != '') {  

    echo $row['country']. "<br>";  

} 
if (isset($row['notes']) && $row['notes'] != NULL && $row['notes'] != '') {  

    echo $row['notes']. "<br>";  

} 
if (isset($row['emorpm']) && $row['emorpm'] != NULL && $row['emorpm'] != '') {  

    echo $row['emorpm']. "<br>";  

} 
if (isset($row['phone']) && $row['phone'] != NULL && $row['phone'] != '') {  

    echo $row['phone']. "<br>";  

} 
if (isset($row['email']) && $row['email'] != NULL && $row['email'] != '') {  

    echo $row['email']. "<br>";  

} 
if (isset($row['notes']) && $row['notes'] != NULL && $row['notes'] != '') {  

    echo $row['notes']. "<br>";  

} 
echo "<hr>"; 
} 
print ("<br><hr><br>Listed above is all the people who are on the e-mail list"); 

echo "<br>"; 
echo "<span context='actions' a='Joe Blow'  b='joe@email.blow' c='1234567890'>Joe Blow</span><BR>"; 
echo "<span context='actions' a='Georgio Shrubbery'     b='georgioshrubb@whitehousen.gov' c='06666666666'>Georgio Shrubbery</span><BR>"; 
echo "<span context='actions' a='Homer Simpson' b='homer@simpsons.com' c='01239992021'>Homer Simpson</span>"; 
?> 




<script type="text/javascript"> 


 // and yet another menu 
    menu3 = { attributes: "a,b,c", 

          items:  [ 
                      {type:RightContext.TYPE_MENU, 
                   text:"Edit [a]", 
                   onclick:function() {window.location = "<domain>?userid=[a]&action=edit"}, 
                   image: "icon.gif", align:"right" }, 
                   {type:RightContext.TYPE_MENU, 
                   text:"View [a]", 
                   onclick:function() {alert('View selected [b]')} }, 
                   {type:RightContext.TYPE_MENU, 
                   text:"Delete [a]", 
                   onclick:function() {alert('Delete selected: [a]')} },    
                   {type: RightContext.TYPE_SEPERATOR }, 
                   {type:RightContext.TYPE_MENU, 
                   text:"Email [a] [b];", 
                   onclick:function() {alert('Email selected: [a]')} }, 
                   {type:RightContext.TYPE_MENU, 
                   text:"Call [a] ([c])", 
                   onclick:function() {alert('Call selected: [a]')} } 
                  ] 
}; 

// add menu3 as 'actions' to the menu collection 
RightContext.addMenu("actions", menu3); 
// initialize RightContext 
RightContext.initialize(); 

</script> 
</body> 
</html>

Krik

Whatever it is your trying to do is very unclear and vague. This is likely why no one has attempted to answer your question. And your code really does not give any indication of what it is your doing.

If I was doing this I would use a div to display all the info from a given row in the database. And then either have the onmouseup event triggered, on that div or on the div holding the name, to run a javascript script function to display another div with the values I need in it.

Now, As your title has the most coherent question I will try to answer it, even thought there is 2 potential replies to it.

If you what to insert a php variable into javascript

<script>
var jsvar = '<?php echo $phpvar; ?>';
</script>

If you need the variable in the menu that pops up

<?php
$myvar = 'Option 3';
?>
<div style="display: none;' onmouseup="DisplayThis()">
    <ul>
        <li>Option 1</li>
        <li>Option 2</li> 
        <li><?php echo $myvar; ?></li>
    </ul>
</div>

If you need more help you will need to ask a very specific question, or set of questions.

the_mysox1

i want the variable in the right click menu. so when you right click on a name in the database it shows you a menu with optios for that name. kinda like what yahoo has in the emails. so you right click on a e-mail a menu comes up for that specific email with things like move, delete, spam etc.

And then when they click on one of these it would do that action.
So Edit contact would bring up a page that has the contact information in textboxes then view full contact information would show their address and other things about them Delete and email contact would do just that. (the email one i am not sure if i really can do but i am interested)

This is all on my home server so it doesn't need to be secure and it is never going to the web so it doen't need to be fancy.

the_mysox1

oops that was supposed to be a box with lines on both sides

Krik

i want the variable in the right click menu

Then my last example is the basics of how you do it.

I would note that showing us how you want it to look is mostly irrelevant in this case. Truly the code that produces that box is more useful.

Maybe I should ask this, do you need to know how to make the box? I almost get the sense your not sure how to create a popup box, as putting a PHP variable into HTML is very basic I am wondering if the question isn't about the variable, but the box.

the_mysox1

well i got the box and the variable inside the box and so now i am working on createing it so that there is a detele link and an edit linke inside the context menu. but i think i willl be fine for now so thx.