[RESOLVED] calling php from php/html

[Stobor]

I'm new to web programing, and so i spent almost 4 hours trying to open one php file from the button click event. in that time i red many posts that you cant call php file from html file and you need to use js to use ajax to call php and other confusing things but in the end

echo "<div class=\"mainmenu\">";
echo "<a href=\"teams.php\"><input id=\"buttons\" type=\"button\" value=\"Teams\"></a>";
echo "</div>";

worked. So im confused , is it "wrong" ?

[evenstar7139]

You just want people to be able to click a button and then be taken to a PHP script?

echo '
<div class=\'mainmenu\'>
<form action=\'teams.php\' method=\'post\'>
<input type=\'submit\' id=\'buttons\' value=\'Click Here\'>
</form>
</div>
'; 

I personally prefer single quotes around my HTML attribute values but if you don't like them you can do it this way:

echo '
<div class="mainmenu">
<form action="teams.php" method="post">
<input type="submit" id="buttons" value="Click Here">
</form>
</div>
'; 

And you should use single quotes with echo (e.g. echo 'hello world'; ) unless you are echoing out a variable. Example:

$name='Bob';
echo "Hi $name"; 

Though to be honest, I never see anybody do that. Everybody seems to separate the variables from the rest of the data when they're echoing something:

$name='Bob';
echo 'Hi '.$name; 

. joins 'Hi' and $name into one string.

This is one of the first questions I've ever tried to answer on this forum. I usually just ask questions. This one seemed so easy, though, I thought I'd give it a try. I hope I did good :3

[Nvenom]

I'm new to web programing, and so i spent almost 4 hours trying to open one php file from the button click event. in that time i red many posts that you cant call php file from html file and you need to use js to use ajax to call php and other confusing things but in the end

echo "<div class=\"mainmenu\">";
echo "<a href=\"teams.php\"><input id=\"buttons\" type=\"button\" value=\"Teams\"></a>";
echo "</div>"; 

worked. So im confused , is it "wrong" ?

Thats just a link to a different page, that works perfectly fine in html, However your echoing means

1. Your actually sitting inside a .php file not an .html file

OR

2. You have a .htaccess file with AddType application/x-httpd-php .html/.htm

in it which allows php to be ran through an html/htm page.

And im just basing that all off the fact you are using Echo's, and those have no place in html

For instance

<a href="google.com">Google</a>

That would redirect your current page to Google.com, So lets say your current URL is

yourwebsite.com

and on yourwebsite.com there is a link to a php file

<!-- yourwebsite.com -->
<a href="simple.php">Redirect to php page</a>

When i click that <a> tag (called an Anchor) it will change my URL to

yourwebsite.com/simple.php

When you sit on the main domain of a website for instance google.com
your actually on a sub page but the browser hides the default file name from you.

So when you go to yourwebsite.com you are actually on yourwebsite.com/index.html or yourwebsite.com/index.php (even though .html has more priority in terms of structure over .php file extensions)

I know its confusing just do some googling and reading of the anchor tag and you will get it

[Stobor]

Thank you for the answers

[evenstar7139]

You're welcome. Also, in my post, I assumed that the code you showed me came from a .php file.