How to show table based on variable?

[Jack]

I want to display a table on a page based on whether a button is
pressed or not. I'm new at php so I'm sure I'm making a basic
mistake. Here's what I am trying. My thought was that $show_summary
would switch states with each click but it is coming up always true.
So I'm guessing that is the default setting when the page loads. Can
someone please point out where I am going wrong?

if(isset($_POST['summary'])) {
$show_summary = true;
} else {
$show_summary = false;
}

<FORM method="POST" action="testpag e.php">
<INPUT type="submit" name="summary" value="Show Summary">
</FORM>

<?php if ($show_summary == true) { ?>
<table border="1" cellpadding="3" >
<tr>
<td class="smallTex t" align="center" width="80%"><?p hp echo "URL";
?></td>
</tr>
</table>
<?php } ?>

Jack

[Jack]

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>Jack wrote:
>
>>I want to display a table on a page based on whether a button is
>>pressed or not.
>
>If the button is not pressed, how does PHP receive the data?
Thanks for the help. This does work. I'll look into your suggestion
about javascript too since I would really rather have just the one
button.

I still don't understand how you're going to submit a form without
pressing a button :-)

I'm not really wanting to submit a form. That was the only way I
could think of to try to do what I wanted. All I want is a button
that acts as an on/off switch. Press it once and a table is
displayed. Press it again and the table is hidden.

If you don't mind using javascript and css:

<script type="text/javascript">
var visibility = 'hidden';
function toggleTable()
{
if( visibility == 'visible' ) visibility = 'hidden';
else visibility = 'visible';

document.getEle mentById('myTab le').style.cssT ext =
'visibility: ' + visibility;
}
</script>

<table id="myTable" style="visibili ty: hidden">
<tr><th>My Table</th></tr>
</table>

<input type="button" onclick="toggle Table()" value="table">

Thanks for the code - this works great. My thanks to all those that
helped. This was quite a learning experience.

Jack

[Nairb]

<snip>

I want to display a table on a page based on whether a button is
pressed or not.

You don't mention what the data of the table you are referring to, And
this is probably off track Or at least the subject of another news
group, BUT, perhaps you could do it w/o hitting the server again:
<table id="dam" border="1">
<tr><td> The dam Table.</tr></td>
</table>

<a href="#" onClick="docume nt.getElementBy Id('dam').style .visibility='vi sible'">Show
the dam table</a>

<button onClick="docume nt.getElementBy Id('dam').style .visibility='hi dden'">Hide
the dam table</button>

Of course I'm sure it brings up a whole new slew of compatibility
issues you would have to consider.