Why do you need javascript?
Scenario:
1 User selects jpeg image in list
2 User press submit button
3 Server receives selection and download jpeg with its text in html
Would that work for you?
Alain

On Sun, Feb 11, 2001 at 02:19:38PM +0000, John Morrison wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> I have just discovered server side scripting and am trying 
> to get to grips with it using PHP4 with Xitami on Windows 
> Me.  Straight away, on my first project, it looks as though 
> I have found a problem I am not going to solve without 
> help.
> 
> I have an HTML form with an Option Select drop down list 
> which displays choices of which JPEG file to load into an 
> <IMG> picturebox.  After selecting an option, clicking a 
> button runs a Javascript function which displays the image, 
> changing the previous picture.  So far so good, but here is 
> the problem.  I also wish to display a caption and 
> descriptive paragraph or two in an adjacent scrollable 
> <TEXTAREA>.
> 
> I thought a good way would be to have a text file for each 
> picture on the server and display the appropriate one as 
> required.  But, so far, I have not managed to find any file 
> operation capabilities in Javascript. 
> 
> My next thought was to use the PHP "include" function, or 
> some other file reading technique, but I have not found a 
> satisfactory way to pass the filename to PHP.  A Javascript 
> variable naturally cannot be passed to a PHP function so I 
> had Javascript copy the file pathname to the TextArea with 
> the hope of getting my include function to pick it up from 
> there.  But I have not succeeded.  PHP does not like the 
> dots in "$captionpath = 
> Document.FormName.TextAreaName.Value;" and simply removes 
> them.
> 
> So I abandoned this and tried doing it completely outside 
> of Javascript.  I have tried everything I can think of 
> including a rigmarole which involved the self-submit method 
> <FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="<?php print('$php_self'); ?>">. 
>  Without going into detail, I did manage to display the 
> caption but I had other problems which made this avenue 
> seem unproductive, so I did not persue it. For example, 
> instead of just a clean change of the IMG and TextArea 
> contents the whole page was reloaded from the server and 
> repositioned at "Top of Page".  Apart from the slowness of 
> this, it looked massively clumsy.
> 
> Am I missing the obvious??
> 
> Regards
> John Morrison
> 
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