Executing a PHP routine when clicking a link

[mottwsc]

I have a PHP application where I am trying to execute a PHP routine when the user clicks on a link to go to another page.  The routine needs to execute before I use a header location command to send the user to the next location.  I can't do this all with JavaScript, but it could be part of the solution if necessary.  I'd prefer to just use PHP if I could, but I'm not sure that this is possible.

 

Can anyone share with me a brief example of how I could do this?

 

Thanks!

[doddsey_65]

when the user clicks a link, the browser is going to go there. There is no way to halt this in php so you can run another script/process first. The only way to do this would be to halt the process with javascript/jquery, run your code, and then continue to the page in question:

 

This is the jquery way:

$('a.myLink').click(function(e){
e.preventDefault();

//run your code here
// then continue to go to the page

document.location = $(this).attr('href');
});

 

[Nodral]

why not include the PHP in the top of the called page prior to outputting the headers?

[mottwsc]

doddsey_65, thanks for the suggestion - I'll look into that.

 

Nodral - the problem is that, depending on which of several links is clicked, the code that has to be executed is going to be slightly different, so I can't run one set of code before the html renders.  I need to (a) pass a session variable to another server (if needed, depending on the server I'm coming from and going to), and (b) incorporate the right path information in the link.