Clickable links in PHP

ace2109 · 16 Jul 2014 at 08:27

Hey Guys,
I am struggling to make links clickable within a php form guys, any ideas?

I just need to make a single link within a field clickable?

Thanks for your help guys.

ace2109 · 16 Jul 2014 at 11:05

Spunkey said:
What do you mean by 'make a single link in a field clickable'? As Showboat says, it's just a straightforward a HTML tag.

I have a form setup in HTML and I need to make one of these fields that contains a URL clickable so it opens as soon as its clicked.

Hope that makes sense

ace2109 · 16 Jul 2014 at 11:43

This is the piece that needs to appear as a clickable URL

<tr>
<th>Dropbox Folder</th>
<td>
<? echo $row['dropboxfolder']; ?>
</td>
</tr>

ace2109 · 16 Jul 2014 at 12:01

Sorry about the continuous questions guys but I have another small issue, when I click the submit button to post the information in the for to that database nothing happens.

This is the form

PHP:

 <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css" />
   <script src="http://code.jquery.com/ui/1.10.3/jquery-ui.js"></script>
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.9.1.js"></script>
 

  <script>


  function focusTextBox(){
  var a=2;
 var tb = document.getElementById('datepicker');
 if(a==2){
 $(document).ready(function() {
    $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker({ minDate: 0, maxDate: "+18M +0D", showOtherMonths: true,
      selectOtherMonths: true, dayNamesMin: ['Sun', 'Mon', 'Tue', 'Wed', 'Thu', 'Fri', 'Sat'],showButtonPanel: true, dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd' });
  });
}else{

 $(document).ready(function() {
    $( "#datepicker" ).datepicker({ minDate: 1, maxDate: "+18M +0D", dateFormat: 'yy-mm-dd' });
  });

}
 tb.focus();



}
  </script>
<?

//header('Refresh: 20');
$username="*****";
$password="**********************";
$database="***********************";
$localhost="************************";

$editor = "
<option value='phil'>Phil Hopper</option>
<option value='robyn'>Robyn Adamson</option>
<option value='patrick'>Patrick O'Kane</option>
<option value='andrew.robinson'>Andrew Robinson</option>
<option value='Other'>Other</option>
";

?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>

<body>

<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="insert_project.php">

<table width="200" border="1">
<tr>
    <td>Project Name</td>
    <td>
            <input type='text' name='project_name' value='' />
    
              </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Client Name</td>
    	<td>	<input type='text' name='client_name'input value=''>
       
        
    </td>
     </tr>
    <tr>
    <td>Client Contact Number</td>
    	<td>	<input type='text' name='client_tel'input value=''>
       
        
    </td>
     </tr>
     <tr>
    <td>Client Email</td>
    	<td>	<input type='text' name='client_email'input value=''>   
    </td>
     </tr>
      <tr>
    <td>Short Project Description</td>
    <td><textarea name="description" cols="17" rows="5"></textarea></td>
          </tr>
     <tr>
    <td>Logos</td>
    <td>
    <input type='text' name='logos'input value=''>
                        
              </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Deadline</td>
      
  	<td>	 <div data-role="fieldcontain">
            <input type="date" name="deadline" id="deadline" value="date" />
       </div> 
       
        
    </td>
 </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>BNL Deadline</td>
      
  	<td>	 <div data-role="fieldcontain">
            <input type="date" name="bnl" id="bnl" value="date" />
       </div> 
       
        
    </td>
 </tr>
 <tr>
    <td>Project Manager</td>
    <td>
    <input type='text' name='manager'input value=''>
                        
              </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Filming</td>
    <td>
    <input type='text' name='filiming'input value=''>
                        
              </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>Editor</td>
    <td>
     <select name="editor" id="editor">
           <option value=""></option>
          <? echo "$editor"?>
        </select>             
              </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>Dropbox Folder</td>
    <td>
    <input type='text' name='dropboxfolder'input value=''>
                        
              </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>Music Theme</td>
    <td>
    <input type='text' name='music'input value=''>
                        
              </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>Songs per project</td>
    <td>
    <input type='text' name='songs'input value=''>
                        
              </tr>
              
   <tr>
    <td>Clients expected time</td>
    <td>
    <input type='text' name='client_time'input value=''>
                        
              </tr>
              <tr>
    <td>Expected Outcome</td>
    <td>
    <input type='text' name='outcome'input value=''>
                        
              </tr>
                <tr>
    <td>Notes</td>
    <td><textarea name="notes" cols="17" rows="5"></textarea></td>
          </tr>
</table>
<? mysql_close();?>
<input type="submit" name="Submit" id="Submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

</body>
</html>

This is the action code:

PHP:

<?
$project_name = $_POST['project_name']; 
$client_name = $_POST['client_name'];
$client_tel = $_POST['client_tel'];
$client_email = $_POST['client_email'];
$description = $_POST['description'];
$logos = $_POST['logos'];
$deadline = $_POST['deadline'];
$bnl = $_POST['bnl'];
$manager = $_POST['manager'];
$filiming = $_POST['filiming'];
$editor = $_POST['editor'];
$dropboxfolder = $_POST['dropboxfolder'];
$music = $_POST['music'];
$songs = $_POST['songs'];
$client_time = $_POST['client_time'];
$outcome = $_POST['outcome'];
$notes = $_POST['notes'];

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', ‘1’);


//header('Refresh: 20');
$username="*";
$password="*";
$database="*";
$localhost="*";

mysql_connect($localhost,$username,$password);
@mysql_select_db($database) or die( "Unable to select database");
string mysql_real_escape_string ( string $unescaped_string [, resource $link_identifier = NULL ] );

$query_insert = "INSERT INTO projects VALUES ('$project_name','$client_name','$client_tel','$client_email','$description','$logos','$deadline','$bnl','$manager','$filiming','$dropboxfolder','$editor','$music','$songs','$client_time','$outcome','$notes')";
mysql_query($query_insert);  

$to = "[email protected]";
$subject = "$project_name";

$message ="$manager has filled in the Project form.\n 
Project Name:		$project_name\n 
Client Name: 		$client_name\n
Client telephone:   $client_tel\n
Client Email:       $client_email\n
Description:		$description\n 
Logos: 		        $logos\n
Client deadline:    $deadline\n
BNL deadline:       $bnl\n
Project Manager:	$manager\n 
Filming: 		    $filiming\n
Dropbox Folder: 		    $dropboxfolder\n
Music:              $music\n
N0. Songs:		    $songs\n 
Logos: 		        $client_time\n
Expected Outcome:   $outcome\n
Notes:              $notes\n
 ";

$from = "[email protected]";
$headers = "From:" . $from;
mail($to,$subject,$message,$headers);


mysql_close();

header( 'Location: index.php' ) ;
?>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>

</body>
</html>

ace2109 · 16 Jul 2014 at 12:48

Its amazing what a fresh pair of eyes can do, the escape_string was causing it not to post.

Cheers guys