On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> Terion Miller wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> javascript is client side.
>> php is server side.
>> To use something client side in a server side script, the web page
>> has to send it to the server from the client.
>>
>> The best way to do what you want to do is probably to do the work
>> count server side, but if you really want to use what javascript
>> produced you can create a hidden input with a specified id, and use
>> dhtml via javascript to modify the input and insert the value into
>> the value field of the hidden input. Then it will get sent to the
>> server when the user hits the post button.
>>
>> However, since you should be validating any user input server side,
>> you'll need to validate that the variable is accurate - might as
>> well just do the count with php server side.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks Michael I was kind of moving in the right direction as far as the
>> hidden input goes, going to have to google on how to do it with the dhtml
>> and all like you suggested.
>>
>
> Look at the various DOM functions - IE for
>
> <input type="hidden" name="wordcount" id="hiddenStudd" value="">
>
> you coud do in your js:
>
> var myHidden = document.getElementById('hiddenStuff');
> myHidden.setAttribute('value',$yourvalue);
>
Thought I would go ahead and post a bit more on this, so here is my
wordcount little function on the textarea of the form:
<textarea name="Comments" cols="55" rows="5" wrap="hard"
onKeyDown="wordCounter(this.form.Comments,this.form.remLen, 300);"
onKeyUp="wordCounter(this.form.Comments,this.form.remLen, 300);"><?php if
(isset($_SESSION['Comments'])) {echo $_SESSION['Comments'];}
?></textarea><br>Letters to the Editor are limited to 300 words or
less.<br>Words remaining: <input type=box readonly name=remLen size=3
value=300>
So I was thinking I should be able to pass that again to the next page which
is the emailform.php page that is taking all the id= and printing them to an
email ....
should be able to reuse that function right?
<input type="hidden" id="words" value="" onSubmit="return
wordCounter(this.form.Comments,this.form.remLen);" >
or do I need to define the variable? think I'm starting to confuse myself
lol
