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[Ken Robinson]

At 04:37 AM 7/3/2006, michael wrote:
>On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 03:47:00 -0700 (PDT)
>Karl Brian Dano <karl_niarb at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > Again, I need some help with PHP/MySQL. How do I assign a MySQL query
> > to a button and how can make the button only pressable (or be
> > available for "pressing") once a day?
> >
> > Help will be greatly appreciated.
>
>A button click in PHP (in the browser) does not send a signal like a
>button click event in a gui desktop application (vb, WXWindows, qt, gtk,
>tkinter, etc).  First you need an HTML form element and an input
>element.  Each will have characteristics that tell the web server what
>to do.  Here's some samples, spaced for easy reading:

You could also use Javascript to set up the button and use AJAX to 
start a PHP script that interacts with MySQL. You could use logic in 
your main PHP script to decide whether or not to display the button.

Ken