on click

[Pouncer]

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

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

<?
function _save(blah) { }
?>

any ideas guys?

[visualAd]

Use confirm() instead of alert().

[penagate]

Don't use onclick

[visualAd]

Don't use onclick

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

[penagate]

Doesn't my predictability sicken you? It does me

[Pouncer]

i got a weird problem

<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>

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

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

[penagate]

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

[visualAd]

i got a weird problem

<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>

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

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

Ajax isn't that easy.

[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?

[penagate]

cant i have php inside javascript?

Go back and read the tutorial again.

[visualAd]

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?

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:

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

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

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());
} 

[Pouncer]

Ok,

how can i go about doing this properly then?

edit * Thanks visualAid

[visualAd]