How to call a PHP function on the click of a button
button, forms, html, php
Solution
Button clicks are client side whereas PHP is executed server side, but you can achieve this by using Ajax:
$('.button').click(function() {
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "some.php",
data: { name: "John" }
}).done(function( msg ) {
alert( "Data Saved: " + msg );
});
});
In your PHP file:
<?php
function abc($name){
// Your code here
}
?>
Problem
I have created a page called `functioncalling.php` that contains two buttons, Submit and Insert. I want to test which function is executed when a button gets clicked. I want the output to appear on the same page. So, I created two functions, one for each button. ``` <form action="functioncalling.php"> <input type="text" name="txt" /> <input type="submit" name="insert" value="insert" onclick="insert()" /> <input type="submit" name="select" value="select" onclick="select()" /> </form> <?php function select(){ echo "The select function is called."; } function insert(){ echo "The insert function is called."; } ?> ``` The problem here is that I don't get any output after any of the buttons are clicked. Where exactly am I going wrong?