on click

Code:

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            <input name="Save" type="submit" class="style11" id="Save" value="Save announcement" onclick="alert(form.textarea.value)" />

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onclick="alert(form.textarea.value)"

that just msgboxes with the announcement (textarea text) on the msgbox.

what im trying to do is make the msgbox appear with a yes/no option so the user can decide to save it or not..

if they want to save it (clicking yes button) i want to perform the function _save which is a php function like this

PHP Code:

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<?
function _save(blah) { }
?>

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any ideas guys?

Use confirm() instead of alert().

Don't use onclick

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Originally Posted by penagate

Don't use onclick

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I knew you were going to post a link to that thread ;)

Doesn't my predictability sicken you? It does me :)

i got a weird problem

Code:

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<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

function processAnn () {
        answer = confirm('Confirm ' + form1.textarea.value)
       
        if (answer == 1) {
                <?
                $query = "UPDATE `announcement` SET `Announcement` = 'hi'";
                $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Query error<br/>" . mysql_error());
               
                ?>
        }
}

</SCRIPT>

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Code:

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<input name="Save" type="submit" class="style11" id="Save" value="Save announcement" onclick="processAnn()" />

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now evertime i refresh the page, it ust writes 'hi' to the database :S

so it keeps on doing this

$query = "UPDATE `announcement` SET `Announcement` = 'hi'";

but it should only do that when i click 'Ok' in the confirm msgbox

I suggest you read this: PHP Tutorial and pay careful attention to the parts that explain when and where PHP code is executed.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Pouncer

i got a weird problem

Code:

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<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">

function processAnn () {
        answer = confirm('Confirm ' + form1.textarea.value)
       
        if (answer == 1) {
                <?
                $query = "UPDATE `announcement` SET `Announcement` = 'hi'";
                $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Query error<br/>" . mysql_error());
               
                ?>
        }
}

</SCRIPT>

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Code:

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<input name="Save" type="submit" class="style11" id="Save" value="Save announcement" onclick="processAnn()" />

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now evertime i refresh the page, it ust writes 'hi' to the database :S

so it keeps on doing this

$query = "UPDATE `announcement` SET `Announcement` = 'hi'";

but it should only do that when i click 'Ok' in the confirm msgbox

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Ajax isn't that easy. :D

ok, but i dont see why it cant work properly, the page is a .php page anyway

cant i have php inside javascript?

how can i go about doing this properly then?

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Pouncer

cant i have php inside javascript?

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Go back and read the tutorial again.

Quote:

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Originally Posted by Pouncer

ok, but i dont see why it cant work properly, the page is a .php page anyway

cant i have php inside javascript?

how can i go about doing this properly then?

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PHP is executed before the pages is sent to the browser. The HTML source code is the output of your PHP script. If you want PHP to execute on a Javascript event you'll either need to use Ajax (which as you are a beginner I do not recommend) or use a link:

Code:

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<a href="page.php?action=updateannounce&set=hi">Update Announcement</a>

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If your page you'll need to have something like this:

PHP Code:

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if (isset($_GET['action'])){
    switch ($_GET['action']) {
        case 'updateannounce':
            update_announcement(@$_GET['set']);
            break;
    }
}

function update_announcement($text)
{
    $text=mysql_escape_string($text);

    $query = "UPDATE `announcement` SET `Announcement` = '$text'";
    $result = mysql_query($query) or die("Query error<br/>" . mysql_error());
} 


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Ok,

how can i go about doing this properly then?

edit * Thanks visualAid

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