This is what you could do. Separating them into a few files. Also read the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_%28programming%29 to learn some more about AJAX. You should also learn more about Server Side Scripting so you understand what can be done with Server Side Scripting and Client Side Scripting. index.php: $query would contain the SQL (or is it some other query type) you want to execute. This is far from any security as you come if this would be SQL, as you would output the SQL and therefore give table names etc to anyone who views the source of the HTML. This could in the future lead to SQL injections etc if you don't protect your self against that as well. You would also need to include the javascript.js in your <head> tag of the HTML that you generate. Also you would need to download the Prototype library and include them in <head> as well. See http://wiki.script.aculo.us/scriptaculous/show/Prototype where you can download the necessary files to do your AJAX calls. If you want to do it the hard coded way you need to create an ActiveXObject object if the user have IE or an XMLHttpRequest object if user don't have a IE compatiable browser. I suggest that you stick with Prototype unless you need to create an really high performance tool for this, and might need to hard code it your self. ------ echo "<br><br><a href=\"javascript:doSearch($query)\">More results from Mysite</a>"; echo "<div id='resultsdiv'></div>"; ------ javascript.js: ------ function doSearch(sql) { var success = function(t){ thediv = document.getElementById("resultsdiv"); thediv.innerHTML = t.responseText; } var failure = function(t){ alert("Something went wrong, please try again."); } var url='ajax.php'; pars = "query="+ query; var req= new Ajax.Request(url, {method: 'post', postBody:pars, onSuccess: success, onFailure: failure}); } ------ ajax.php ------ //Set header to TEXT/HTML and also whatever enc type you want. header("Content-type: text/html"); if(isset($_POST['mysql'])) { //do whatever you want with the //$_POST['mysql'] variable and output the results //the you want to be shown in the div with id resultsdiv } ------ Best regards, Peter Lauri -----Original Message----- From: Aras [mailto:manager@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Tuesday, December 26, 2006 11:50 AM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: calling a function in the same page You can not call PHP functions through a href which is used for linking web pages. You need to create a new file or use a switch in your current file for search input, with the function in it. So that you can link to that URL, not the function itself. You can use AJAX as well, to send commands to a php file and get the results in xml/text, but again you need to call Javascript there, your logic is totally wrong. Aras Koktas manager@xxxxxxxxxx Business Excellence Development Phi.dot Internet Systems -----Original Message----- From: Jahangir [mailto:jahan9@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, December 24, 2006 6:34 PM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: calling a function in the same page I am trying to call a function from "a href" inside the same page. this is the code: echo "<br><br><a href=\"isearch($query)\">More results from Mysite</a>"; // calling the function isearch function isearch($query) {$query=urlencode($query); $request='http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/V1/webSearch?appid=Ja hangir&query=' .urlencode($query). '&output=php&results=100&site=mysite.com; $response=file_get_contents($request); if ($response === false) { die('Request failed');} $phpobj=unserialize($response); $count=$phpobj["ResultSet"]["totalResultsReturned"]; if($phpobj["ResultSet"]["totalResultsAvailable"]==0) {echo "<br>NO RESULTS TO DISPLAY"; } echo "<tr>"; echo "<h4 style=\"color:#FF0000\" align=\"center\">Results from Mysite</h4>"; for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++) { echo '<pre>'; $no=$i+1; $url=$phpobj["ResultSet"]["Result"]["$i"]["Url"]; echo "<h3>" ."$no. ". "<a href=\"$url\">" . $phpobj["ResultSet"]["Result"]["$i"]["Title"] . "</a></h3>"; echo "</tr>"; echo "<tr>"; echo $phpobj["ResultSet"]["Result"]["$i"]["Summary"]; echo "</tr>"; echo "<br>"; echo "<tr>"; echo "<b>" .$phpobj["ResultSet"]["Result"]["$i"]["Url"] ."</b>"; echo "</tr>"; echo "<br>"; $link=$phpobj["ResultSet"]["Result"]["$i"]["DisplayUrl"]; echo "<tr>"; echo "<a href=\"$url\">$link</a>"; echo "</tr>"; echo '</pre>'; }} whenever i try to execute this function i either get an "Object not found error" or "Access Forbidden error". Can someone tell me where am i going wrong here?? thanks in advance -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
