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ajetrumpet

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I have this code:

echo "<td><a href = 'https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup' target = '_blank'>$col</a></td>";

the textbox I want to populate on the page has name attribute "LOOKUPADDRESS".  it has no id attribute.  after clicking on the link, is it possible  to fill the textbox with $col?

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1 hour ago, ajetrumpet said:

it has no id attribute

Why not?  That's the whole point in having an id attribute, to identify it easily.  Instead of having to use

textarea[name='LOOKUPADDRESS']

you can use

#LOOKUPADDRESS

To get you textarea to populate, though, you'll need to listen for the click of the anchor tag, or modify what happens when it's clicked.

<a href="#nowhere" id="anchor">Click HERE</a>
<textarea id="LOOKUPADDRESS"></textarea>
document.getElementById('anchor').onclick(function(arg){
	arg.preventDefault();
	var t = document.getElementById("LOOKUPADDRESS").innerText = "<?php echo $col; ?>";
});

I haven't tested any of this code, so copy and paste at your own risk.

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what's the purpose of this:

<a href="#nowhere"

am I supposed to copy that into my code literally?

I tried:

<a href="#nowhere" id="anchor">"https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip/" . $col </a>

but i'm getting an -unexpected "- and -unexpected "<" error in eclipse.

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what i want is:  https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip

and then of course $col concatenated on the end.  without $col on the end of the URL, the link takes me to:  https://whatismyipaddress.com/ip-lookup

and yes i've tested them.  what i said above happens the same way in the browser too.  e.g. - without $col on the end of the first link, it redirects to the second link.

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here's an example for you

<?php

$link1 = "<a class='LOOKUP' href='http://google.com'  target='_blank'>Site 1</a>";
$link2 = "<a class='LOOKUP' href='http://yahoo.com'  target='_blank'>Site 2</a>";

?>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Example</title>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
    $().ready( function() {
        $(".LOOKUP").click( function(event) {
            event.preventDefault()
            var loc = $(this).attr("href")
            var linktext = $(this).html()
            $("#mytext").append(linktext + "\n")
            window.open(loc, '_blank');
        })
    })
</script
</head>
<body>
    <?=$link1?>
    <br>
    <?=$link2?>
    <br>
    <h3>Visited links</h3>
    <textarea rows="5" cols="35" id="mytext" ></textarea>
</body>
</html>

 

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is this:

Quote

"https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"

this geolocation library that google offers?  it doesn't look like it.  when godaddy failed me on the geolocation extension implementation I google the issue and found some HTML code that uses the free google apis for that purpose.

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this code is from this page:  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/409999/getting-the-location-from-an-ip-address

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
contry_code = google.loader.ClientLocation.address.country_code
city = google.loader.ClientLocation.address.city
region = google.loader.ClientLocation.address.region
</script>

will this work to capture geo data?

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