php inside html

[Skijor]

To call a php script from inside an HTML page I use the href tag with a
link like http://www.mydomain.com/script.php. This works but is it the
best way / only way?

[Jerry Stuckle]

Skijor wrote:

To call a php script from inside an HTML page I use the href tag with a
link like http://www.mydomain.com/script.php. This works but is it the
best way / only way?

You're problem is PHP is server-side. To access a PHP script, you must
submit a page to the server. This script can then output information,
redirect the user back to the original page or onto a completely new
page. See the header() function.

An alternative is AJAX, which uses Javascript to help you call scripts
on the server.

But basically your webserver environment requires a different way of
thinking - each page is separate from others. Any requests to the
server will load a new page (or frame), erasing what was previously
there. So if you want to show the data again, you need to display the
page again.

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