Passing array from php to javascript using html button

[ajeesh.tr]

Hi All,

 

      Am new to this forum and also to scripting,I have some arrays in php, onclick function of the button

in html should pass the arrays to javascript function which is in a ".js" file.The php and html code is in a

".php"  file. Please help me on this...

[spiderwell]

php doesn't talk to javascript and vice versa.

 

what exactly are you trying to achieve

 

 

[ajeesh.tr]

Am reading data from mysql database and saving it in an array,these data i need to display in a form in textboxes,

the form management is taken care by the java script.In the form there is button, on clicking the button, i need to display

the data in the textboxes. In the javascript i have taken care of displaying data,but am not able to pass array to the java script.

 

[spiderwell]

you would have to create php code to echo out javascript code to do it, this function below is from a site i made (for fun!) and it takes a list form a database, and spits it out in different formats, www.copyandpastelists.com

if you look i am using the php to write a small javascript array with values from a php dataset from mysql

you should be able to acheive what you want in this manner, but of course it will need a rewrite to work exactly how you want it too

function genItem1ListJS($id)
{
$i = 0;
$rtnstr = "";
$rtnstr .= "<script type=\"text/javascript\">\r\tvar list=new Array(); \r";
if (is_numeric($id)) //check $id is numeric
	{
		$result = DbConnector::query("SELECT * FROM listitems WHERE `listid` = $id ORDER BY `order` ASC;");
		while ($row = DbConnector::fetchArray($result) ) //list list data
		{  
			$rtnstr .= "\tlist[" . $i . "]=\"" . $row['item1'] . "\";\r";
			$i++;
		}
		$rtnstr .= "</script>\r";
		return $rtnstr;
	}
else //$id is not numeric
	{
		$this->errors[] = "Value of \$id was not numeric in ListControl->genItem1List()"; //Value not numeric! Add error description to list of errors
		return false;
	}
}

 

it turns out something like this :

<script type="text/javascript">
var list=new Array(); 
list[0]="Monday";
list[1]="Tuesday";
list[2]="Wednesday";
list[3]="Thursday";
list[4]="Friday";
list[5]="Saturday";
list[6]="Sunday";
</script>