calling a php function

[thecoolone]

I am trying to call a function from "a href" inside the same page.
this is the code:
echo "<br><br><a href=\"isearch($query)\">More results from
Mysite</a>";
// calling the function isearch

function isearch($query)

{$query=urlencode($query);

$request='http://api.search.yahoo.com/WebSearchService/V1/webSearch?appid=Ja
hangir&query=' .urlencode($query).
'&output=php&results=100&site=mysite.com;

$response=file_get_contents($request);

if ($response === false) {

die('Request failed');}

$phpobj=unserialize($response);

$count=$phpobj["ResultSet"]["totalResultsReturned"];

if($phpobj["ResultSet"]["totalResultsAvailable"]==0)

{echo "<br>NO RESULTS TO DISPLAY"; }

echo "<tr>"; echo "<h4 style=\"color:#FF0000\" align=\"center\">Results
from
Mysite</h4>";

for($i=0;$i<$count;$i++)

{ echo '<pre>';

$no=$i+1;

$url=$phpobj["ResultSet"]["Result"]["$i"]["Url"];

echo "<h3>" ."$no. ". "<a href=\"$url\">" .
$phpobj["ResultSet"]["Result"]["$i"]["Title"] . "</a></h3>"; echo
"</tr>";

echo "<tr>"; echo $phpobj["ResultSet"]["Result"]["$i"]["Summary"]; echo
"</tr>";

echo "<br>"; echo "<tr>"; echo "<b>"
..$phpobj["ResultSet"]["Result"]["$i"]["Url"] ."</b>"; echo "</tr>";

echo "<br>"; $link=$phpobj["ResultSet"]["Result"]["$i"]["DisplayUrl"];

echo "<tr>"; echo "<a href=\"$url\">$link</a>"; echo "</tr>";

echo '</pre>'; }}

whenever i try to execute this function i either get an "Object not
found
error" or "Access Forbidden error".

Can someone tell me where am i going wrong here??

thanks in advance

[no]

thecoolone wrote:

I am trying to call a function from "a href" inside the same page.
this is the code:
echo "<br><br><a href=\"isearch($query)\">More results from

you must break a string to call a function.
try this:

echo "<br><br><a href=\"" . isearch($query) . "\">More results from
Mysite</a>";

[no]

oh, yeah
and first write your function

function isearch() {
....

}

and then call the

echo "<br><br><a href=\"" . isearch($query) . "\">More results from
Mysite</a>";

[BKDotCom]

thecoolone wrote:

I am trying to call a function from "a href" inside the same page.
this is the code:
echo "<br><br><a href=\"isearch($query)\">More results from

It's not clear what you're wanting to do.
a) Do you want a link that executes/calls isearch?
b) Or, do you want the href link/value to contain the results of
isearch?

I'm thinking you want (a). If so, try something like this:
echo '<br><br><a
href="?action=search&amp;query='.urlencode($query) .'">More
results</A>';

then you'd need to add some code to your page likey so:

if ( isset($_GET['action']) && $_GET['action'] == 'search' )
{
if ( !empty($_GET['query']) )
isearch($_GET['query']);
}