Thanks John, Pointed me in the right direction. This was the actual code I ended up needing. (! Ignore this e-mail if it will offend you containing JavaScript info rather than php/db info; I did need to figure this out for my db to be updated appropriately...) (1st you need to define the variable as a hidden field in the form) <input type="hidden" name="parent" value=""> (2nd, we need to use both the href attribute as well as, and separately to, the onClick JavaScript reference, so the html output looks like:) <a name="2" href="JavaScript: document.myForm.submit();" onClick="document.myForm.parent.value=2;">Me</a> The onClick event changes the value of the hidden field, the href attribute submits the form with the submit() function. I couldn't get it to work by calling a function, because the onClick reference needed to be associated with that anchor tag and needed to be a separate event to the href pointing to the submit() function. I guess I could have 2 separate functions for each... But since it's generated by the php script is easy enough like this. Cheers, Gav -----Original Message----- From: John W. Holmes [mailto:holmes072000@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, 14 April 2004 12:48 PM To: Gavin Amm Cc: PHP-mailist Subject: Re: Pass database id through href Gavin Amm wrote: > EXAMPLE: > (I know you can't use "value" with the "a" tag, but bear with me for > illustration purposes in this pseudo-code) > > > <form name="theForm"> > > <input type="text" name="title"> > <!-- etc with the fields --> > > <input type=text name="formInput"> > <a href="javascript:document.theForm.submit();" name="parent" > value="23">Auditing Home</a> > <a href="javascript:document.theForm.submit();" name="parent" > value="17">Finance Home</a> > <a href="javascript:document.theForm.submit();" name="parent" > value="122">Planning Home</a> > <a href="javascript:document.theForm.submit();" name="parent" > value="231">Tax Home</a> > > </form> > > > When the admin clicks on one of the "parent" hyperlinks, the form is > submitted with (in this example) (say they click on the "Tax Home" link) > the values: > $title == [whatever the user types into the text field] > $parent == 231 > > How do I get this $parent value from the html page?? Instead of calling theForm.submit(), all another function that sets a form variable before submitting the form. <a href="javascript:mysubmit(231);">Tax Home</a> <script> function mysubmit(var) { document.theForm.parent.value = var; document.theForm.submit(); } </script> "parent" might be a reserved word, so watch out for that. I'm no JS wiz, but I think that's something along the lines of what you want to do. You basically use JS to add a form element based upon what link was clicked. -- ---John Holmes... Amazon Wishlist: www.amazon.com/o/registry/3BEXC84AB3A5E/ php|architect: The Magazine for PHP Professionals - www.phparch.com -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
