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need help inserting and manipulating hidden data

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 8:43 am
by lucesolare
Hi,
Hope somebody can help me because I am relatively new to PHP and I am currently unsure how to implement the following:

Let's assume I have a table like this id_number, name, data1, data2. When displayed on HTML page:
Column id_number should be hidden.
Column name is a link. When you click on this column then value stored in id_number should be used in a query to database. Result should be displayed below the link on the same page. When clicked again data should hide.

I have some idea how to toggle visibility with a simple javascript function. How do i populate the table with hidden data and then extract it later on?

Any help or suggestions are appreciated. Thanks.

Re: need help inserting and manipulating hidden data

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 1:57 pm
by Christopher
It is a little confusing because you are using the word "table" for HTML <table>, but also perhaps a database table? It is not clear whether you want to "extract" the data later from HTML or the database?

Re: need help inserting and manipulating hidden data

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 2:15 pm
by lucesolare
Sorry for the confusion. I meant HTML table. I need to put data into HTML table but make data for column id_number hidden and extract that hidden data from HTML table so that I can use it in SELECT statement. I am not really sure how to go about all this and how much can be done using PHP only. Thanks.