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php show data in textarea after link has been pressed

Answer 1

A:

If you can use jQuery you could do something like:

$('a.dates').click(function(event) {
    event.preventDefault(); // prevents link from reloading page
    $('input#date').val($(this).attr('title'));
})

<?php
    foreach($data as $key)
    {
        echo '<a class="dates" title="$key->date" href="">' . $key->date. '</a>';
        echo '<br />';
    }
?>

<input id="date" value="" name="date" />

blcArmadillo 2010-08-11 12:42:51

That won't work for dynamic links and he doesn't have title any way :)

Sarfraz 2010-08-11 12:51:00

Seeing as he generates the links using PHP .click should work just fine. And what does it matter if he didn't have a title, he can add it just like we both had him add a class to the link.

blcArmadillo 2010-08-11 12:57:00

Answer 2

+2 A:

See the working demo here.

Modify your loop like this:

foreach($data as $key)
{
    echo '<a class="link" href="#"' . $key->test . '>' . $key->date. '</a>';
    echo '<br />';
}

And then you can use this jQuery code:

$(function(){
  $('a.link').live('click', function(){
    $('#textarea_id').val($(this).text());
    return false;
  });
});

Where textarea_id' is the id of your textarea in which you want to update the values of links eg:

<textarea id="textarea_id">............

Update:

To add the above script, put this code between <head></head> tags eg:

<head>
<script type="text/javascrpt" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.2/jquery.min.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascrpt">
    $(function(){
      $('a.link').live('click', function(){
        $('#textarea_id').val($(this).text());
        return false;
      });
    });
</script>
</head>

Sarfraz 2010-08-11 12:45:35

How do i add this script in a php file?

Yustme 2010-08-11 13:34:53

@Yustme: See my update please.

Sarfraz 2010-08-11 13:50:54

Answer 3

A:

Ventus 2010-08-11 12:46:07

That won't work for dynamic links :)

Sarfraz 2010-08-11 12:51:22

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