capture mouse click in php

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I am developing a website where I have come across a problem. The thing is, the user has to select one image out of the 3 images that I am displaying. How to capture that click and store that particular clicked image in the database? My sql is the dB.

Thanks in advance

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What have you tried? It seems pretty simple - capture it with JS and send an Ajax request to store it server-side. – jeremyharris
You cannot capture a mouse click in php, as php runs serverside, not client side, php doesn't know what a mouse is. You'd need to provide some more details on what you've already done/want doing if you'd want this to be done without the use of JS. – MLeFevre
What you need is java script not PHP see http://api.jquery.com/click/ and api.jquery.com/jQuery.get – Baba
I understood. I will try now using JS and Ajax. Thank you so much – Aditya Goenka

2 Answers

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PHP (typically) has nothing to do with graphical user interfaces. The user interface you are probably talking about is HTML in the browser. The HTML way of doing this is a checkbox/radio button in a form with a submit button. Possibly the images can be the submit button instead. For something more dynamic, you need to use Javascript.

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The problem in this case seems to be having a record of the image clicked by user.

  1. If the images are 3 separate images, then img tags may record the clicked image, either as part of a form (server-side) or javascript (client side)

  2. If the 3 images are part of one larger image, then image maps may be what you're after:

ismap attribute indicates a server-side image map; when clicked, the coordinates are sent to the server as a URL query string.
The usemap attribute specifies an image as a client-side image map (an image map is an image with clickable areas).