Is it possible to get the image mouse click location with PHP?

Question

Basically what the title says...

I need to have an image that when clicked, I call script.php for instance and in that PHP script file, I get the image coordinates where the mouse was clicked.

Is this possible?

EDIT:
After a couple of answers I realized I didn't describe my problem correctly... The thing is, I don't have total control over the HTML. The control I have for the image and the image link is the control BBCode provides me.

Basically want I want to do is to have a forum signature with links to various sections on my website. You could argue I could use multiple images but most forums limit how much you can type for the signature, which is not enough for multiple images.

So, I will only be able to do something like this:

[url=http://www.mydomain.com/script.php]
[img]http://www.mydomain.com/signature.jpg[/img]
[/url]

Which translates to something like this:

<a href="http://www.mydomain.com/script.php"&gt;
<img src="http://www.mydomain.com/signature.jpg" />
</a>

Answer 1

If you use an input type="image", which works like a button, it will send you x and y coordinates of the mouse click (submits form too).

More info here: http://www.htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/input.html#image

Long time since I used it, but I did make it work for a "where's the ball?" competition on a site many years ago.

Update:

Sounds like the environment is just too limited to do what you want. If the forum lets you do an image map that would work, but I doubt they'd let you. Only other things I could think of would be flash or javascript, similarly, they prob won't allow them. You need something with a little more smarts than an image and an anchor to make this work.

Answer 2

if you set the image input name="foo", then $_POST['foo_x'] and $_POST['foo_y'] will be set to the image coordinates.

Answer 3

You can use an ajax request when "onclick" is performed to send a request to "script.php". Otherwise I would read up on php, which is a server-side language.

Answer 4

This will not be possible unless you can add inline event handlers to the url in bbcode.

Answer 5

If you can't:

1. use JavaScript, or
2. use input type="image", or
3. add any attributes to your img tag (to do things like create an image map)

then, no, you won't be able to do what you describe.

Answer 6

You could try using W3C Image Maps

Image maps allow authors to specify regions of an image or object and assign a specific action to each region (e.g., retrieve a document, run a program, etc.) When the region is activated by the user, the action is executed.

But on a forum in BBCode, I really don't think you're going to be able to get what you're after.

Answer 7

Another solution, though not for BBCode is to use the ismap attribute for img. But may be valuable to others needing exact coordinates. Example:

<a href="link.html"><img src="shapes.jpg" alt="Shapes" ismap="ismap"/></a>

The x and y coordinates will be passed as GET parameters to link.html

Answer 8

I thought so :(

Well, thank you all anyway.