PHP lives on the server. JavaScript lives on the browser. Consider the sequencing of events: 1: Browser sends GET request 2: Apache begins processing request, decides to invoke PHP 3: PHP begins processing, starts sending out HTML (or other data) 4: Apache passes through PHP's HTML/data 5: Browser begins receiving HTML/data 6: Apache and PHP finish sending data and CLOSE CONNECTION 7: Browser displays HTML and executes JavaScript By the time your JavaScript runs, PHP is long-gone. The only way to get data back to PHP is to send a whole 'nother HTTP request from JavaScript to get a whole 'nother URL. This is not generally useful for humanly bearable interaction time-wise, but is occasionally useful. -- WARNING [EMAIL PROTECTED] address is an endangered species -- Use [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wanna help me out? Like Music? Buy a CD: http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm Volunteer a little time: http://chatmusic.com/volunteer.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: Girish P <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: php.general To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 10:37 AM Subject: Accessing Variable !!! Hi, I am trying to use value of the text box for the querying ..The query is defined with in the a javaScript . I am not able to get the Value.. inside the function.. However "document.form.text.value" is getting the value. How do we assign the value of javscript to PHP??? Is there a better way ,,, Php is as follows: <html> <head> <title>Search result</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#fffff0"> <?php echo "<Script Language = \"JavaScript\">\n"; echo "function getNames()\n"; echo "{\n"; echo "alert(\"Inside the FUcntion\");\n"; $connection = mssql_connect("girishp", "sa", "") or die ("could not connect to server."); $db = mssql_select_db("AZADMINGROUP", $connection) or die ("Could not select database"); $sql_employee = "Select E_Number,E_First_Name,E_Last_Name from T_Employee where E_First_Name = \"$searchName\""; echo "alert(document.searchEmpl.searchName.value);\n"; $result_employee = mssql_query($sql_employee, $connection) or die ("Coule not execute"); $count = 1; while($row = mssql_fetch_array($result_employee)) { $ENo = $row["E_Number"]; $val = $row["E_First_Name"]; $val = $val . $row["E_Last_Name"]; #echo "var val = document.searchEmpl.searchresult;\n"; $val = $val . " ( " . $ENo . " )"; echo "document.searchEmpl.searchResult.options[$count].value = '$val';\n"; echo "document.searchEmpl.searchResult.options[$count].text = '$val';\n"; $count++; } echo "}\n"; echo "</Script>\n"; echo "<form name=\"searchEmpl\" method=\"POST\" action=\"Employee_Details.php\">\n"; echo "<h2><font color=\"#CC6699\">Search :</font></h2>\n"; echo "<hr color=\"#CC6699\">\n"; echo "<p><font color=\"#CC6699\"><b>Employee Name : </b></font><input type=\"text\" name=\"searchName\" size=\"20\"> \n"; echo "<input type=\"button\" value=\"Search\" name=\"searchButton\" onClick=\"getNames();\"></p>\n"; echo "<p align=\"left\"><select size=\"1\" name=\"searchResult\">\n"; echo "<option>Search Result</option>\n"; echo "<option></option>\n"; echo "<option></option>\n"; echo "<option></option>\n"; echo "<option></option>\n"; echo "<option></option>\n"; echo "<option></option>\n"; echo "<option></option>\n"; echo "<option></option>\n"; echo "<option></option>\n"; echo "</select> <input type=\"submit\" value=\"Show Details\" name=\"B3\"> </p>\n"; echo "</form>\n\n"; ?> </body> </html> TIA Girish -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
