[ciapug] PHP/Java

[Dave J. Hala Jr.]

Interesting idea.  So basically, I'm embedding the javascript in the PHP
(like you do with HTML) and then assigning the PHP value to the
jasvscript value, right?


On Mon, 2004-01-12 at 10:04, Barry Von Ahsen wrote:
> Dave J. Hala Jr. wrote:
> 
> > Here's a good one for monday morning:
> > 
> > I have a php script. The scripts reads some values from a mysql table
> > and creates a listbox. Next to the listbox is an input field.
> > What I'd like to do is have a small javascript that inserts a default
> > value into the input field according to the option that was selected
> > from the listbox.   The problem is that the values for the input field
> > also come from a mysql table.
> > 
> > My question is, can the javascript use the data from a php array?
> 
> it can if you use PHP to write the javascript:
> <script language="javascript">
> <?
> echo "jsArray = new Array(";
> echo "\"".$inputvalue."\"";
> $recordset->MoveNext();
> while (!$recordset->EOF) {
> 	echo ", \"".$inputvalue."\"";
> 	$recordset->MoveNext();
> }
> echo ")"
> // or echo "jsArray = new Array(\"".implode("\", \", $phpArray)."\")";
> ?>
> document.form.inputbox.value = 
> jsArray[document.form.listbox.selecteditem.value];
> </script>
> 
> I'm sure my javascript is incorrect, but (hopefully) you get the idea
> 
> -barry
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