Question

I have the following chunk of code:

while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($result)) {
    echo "<li/>".$row['trendName']."<input type='submit' name='Dispay' value='Display All Items'  onclick='action='http://blah.co.uk/DisplayData.php';'/>";
    echo"<br />";
}

So, this I want to do is for each element on the list to create a button. When I will click at this button I want to hit a URL.

Let’s say that we have only one element on the list (Movies). By clicking on the button next to the movies, I want to move to another URL: http://blah.co.uk/DisplayData.php
and furthermore to pass to the other URL the name of the element (i.e. Movies)

Is this possible, and if so, how?

Answer 1

I would also recommend to use <button></button> in html 5 to create a button.

echo "<button type='submit' name='Display' onclick='javascript:location=\"http://blah.co.uk/DisplayData.php?value=$row['trendName']\"'>Display</button>";

As suggested above, a link is the proper way to do so.

<?php echo "<a href='http://blah.co.uk/DisplayData.php?value=".$row['trendName']."'>Display</a>"; ?>

You can use $_GET['value']; to retrieve your data “trendName”

However “action” is used in the <form></form> tag

<form action='http://blah.co.uk/DisplayData.php'>
<input type='hidden' name='value' value='<?php echo $row['trendName']; ?>' />
<button type='submit'>Display</button>
</form>

here you would use $_POST['value']; to retrieve your data “trendName”