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tommycahir

Hi All

I have a form that sends an email to a specific inbox containing the values in a series of input boxes. This is done through a PHP script once the user clicks on submit
I also have a Javascript function to copy the values and save them elsewhere. Bot of these functions work great independently but now I am a bit lost as to how i can get both of them to work together ie when the submit button is pressed the vlaues get saved via the function call and then the php script is called as it is in the form action method.

[PHP]
<form method="post" action="http://xxxx.xxxx.xxxxx.com/Chases/frmml.php&quot; name="Chases">
..... input fields.....
<input value="Submit" type="submit">
[/PHP]

Sorry if this is a silly question but I am stilll learning the ropes at Javascript and HTML and have done some googling but have had no success.. Hope somebody can point me in the right direction

Thx

zielarz

Try to save the result of the function to a hidden input field. After the form is submitted you can access it from PHP level.
The hidden input field can be declared as follows:
<input type="hidden" name="result" />

ron_darrell

Where are you saving the values to? If you are using javascript to 'save' the values then unless you are saving them to an XML doc using the XML-javascript interface they will be lost when you go to another page (of course you could be saving them to a cookie in which case they will persist depending on the timeout registered to the cookie). As you are using php why not expand the php script to also save the values to a database or text file as appropriate. If you are saving them to a cookie you can access them on the php script through the cookie function set.

-RD

tommycahir

Hi Guy's

I actually played about with both the idea's but sorta by accident i stumbled across the solution. I added an onclick event trigger to the submit button and this then called the javascript function to save the data!

so simple but yet something i hadnt thought of ..

Thanks for the help