I currently have 2 pages:
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Follow.php:a PHP page which is all setup with twitters api and will follow any user on twitter with the specific parameter you put in.
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One index.php page, which has a list of links of people you can follow.
What I am looking to do is have it so when a user clicks on one of the people to follow on index.php, the variable in follow.php (which is used as a parameter and is the username of twitter account that is going to be followed) gets set to the name attribute of the link selected.
Now I am not the greatest developer, so I am not sure of the best way of doing this. There is probably a better way of doing it that what I am thinking of. I was thinking of using jquery to say something like:
$('a').click(function(){
<?php $group=?>$(this).attr('name'); //trying to set a php variable to name attr
})
This was going to be in its own new file,
then I was going to include this script into the follow.php script and use the variable. This is not working, unsurprisingly. I hope I explained what I was trying to do well.
So I have two questions.
Number 1:what is the best way of achieving what I am trying to do? can i do this all in php?
Number 2: is it possible to do what I was trying to do with jquery and setting the php var equal to the name attr?
What you need to do is do a POST on the Follow.php page and accept the username value. This is a great resource for that: http://www.html.net/tutorials/php/lesson10.php
You can simply set the link href for each tag on the index page to go got Follow.php?user=twitterHandle (where twitterHandle is the twitter username of a person). This way, you dont need to use any javascript at all.