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December 11, 2012
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Using onChange behavior

  • December 11, 2012
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Hi,

I am working in Dreamweaver 5.5 on a php file.

I have a variable $username = $_SESSION['MM_Username'] and another variable: $user_asking. I want to assign the value $username to $user_asking when a Select (List/Menu) is changed, using onChange Behavior. It is possible? Thank you!

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Correct answer sudarshan.t

On a sidenote, I doubt this possibility. PHP is server-side, Javascript is client-side. Unless you actually submit the form to PHP for processing and get a return value, I doubt if you can use the value within an onChange behavior.

Anyway, post your code in full so we can offer more suggestions.

-ST

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sudarshan.t
Inspiring
December 11, 2012

Can we see your full code?

-ST

Participant
December 11, 2012

Hmmmmm...the script is pretty long already (almost 2000 lines) and to give you only that part is complicated. My question, simplified, is like this: what I have to write on Tag inspector-Behaviors-onChange in order (when the event appear) to assign a particular value to a variable?

sudarshan.t
Inspiring
December 11, 2012

Like I said, I don't think it is possible to do this with your PHP and JS on the same page. JS needs to post the data back to PHP for processing which happens on pageload.

However, I'm moving this thread to Developing Server-side applications in DW for better responses.