Question

as the above stated, I wish to make once user click the hyperlink and it should copy into a variable in PHP. Is it possible to do it?

This is what I have tried but nothing seems to come out?

Code:

    <script type="text/javascript">
    function getdl(){
        var dlink = (document.getElementById('getdllink').getAttribute('onclick'))
         <? $url ?> = var dlink
    }
    </script>

<a id="getdllink" onclick="getdl()" href="#"><strong>Master Prospectus</strong></a></font>
            <? echo $url; ?>

I did something wrong? Please help. Thanks!

Answer 1

It’s not possible what you are doing … But it can be done by ajax.

What php does is:

So you need to make an ajax call and assign it to the php variable.

I would suggest you use jquery. It’s very simple and effective.

You can send the data by

jquery:

$("id or class of link").live("click",function(){
var val = $("#getdllink").val();

$.ajax({
  type: "POST",
  url: "some.php",
  data: { value :  val    }
}).done(function( msg ) {
  alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
});
 return false; // Prevent browser from visiting link
})

and in some.php

$var = $_POST['value'];

the above method won’t need to refresh the page

to send this by url check the @PLB answer, it’s good