What kind of php will do this?

[11Tami]

Hello, I need some php to do something important but should be somewhat easy. But I'm not sure how to approach it. Basically I need to put a text link into some php. So that only when the text link is clicked on a small form will appear. Thats it! The rest I can figure out on my own, just need to know how the form can appear when a text link is clicked on, using php.

 

Please let me know, and thank you very much.

[Jessica]

You can't, that's javascript. PHP is serverside, everything runs before the user sees the page. Anything that happens after the page is loaded is client-side : javascript.

[cmgmyr]

You can go that fairly easily with AJAX (Javascript)

[11Tami]

I don't think that seems correct. If the page is refreshed when the link is clicked then the server can read it. I have seen other sites do this. Anyone know how?

[smc]

Well if you want it to do a refresh you can always store a variable to a session that reads "true" and then when the page is refreshed it checks to see if that variable is true and if it is it echo's the HTML of the table.

[Jessica]

If you want the page to refresh, then yes you can do that. Have the link contain something like

http://mysite.com/page.php?show=1

 

and then on the page do:

<?php
$show = $_GET['show'];
if($show == 1){
   print 'The other text here';
}
?>

[11Tami]

Thanks very much you guys and Jesirose, I have this in a page.php page.

 

<?php

$show = $_GET['show'];

if($show == 1)

{print "<a href='http://www.website.com/page.php?show=1'>test link</a>";}

?>

 

But no text link is appearing. I guess it would help to know that this is supposed to do? For instance is my page supposed to be named page.php?show=1???? instead of just page.php ....

 

If so what does that all doing? Thanks a lot.

[11Tami]

Strange that post added a whole bunch of stuff to it that I didn't add. Let me try again.

 

I have this in a page.php page.

 

<?php

$show = $_GET['show'];

if($show == 1)

{print "<a href='http://www.website.com/page.php?show=1'>test link</a>";}

?>

 

But no text link is appearing. I guess it would help to know that your code is supposed to do? For instance is my page supposed to be named page.php?show=1? instead of just page.php ....  and how does all this connect with it?

 

Thanks a lot.

[11Tami]

Man it did it again! That link is supposed to say this </a> at the end of it, not the .

[marcus]

<?php
$show = $_GET['show'];

if($show == 1){
print "<a href=\'http://www.website.com/page.php?show=1\'>TEST LINK</a>\n";
}
?>

 

I'm not the best @ escaping so it might be wrong.

 

Btw, put your code in PHP or Code tags

[11Tami]

Thats terrific but I still don't know what it does. Also my post is still incorrect. I am trying to make a closing A tag for an a href link. But it keeps turning it into a url tag instead. Can anyone tell me what this code and the "Show" commands are supposed to do? Thank you very much.