tinn...@isbd.co.uk wrote: > >I want to run a server side python script when a button on a web page >is clicked. This is on a LAMP server - apache2 on xubuntu 11.10. > >I know I *could* run it as a CGI script but I don't want to change the >web page at all when the button is clicked (I'll see the effect >elsewhere on the screen anyway) so normal CGI isn't ideal.
It seems what you're after is AJAX. If you are using a Javascript framework like jQuery, it's easy to fire off an asynchronous request back to your server that leaves the existing page alone. If you aren't, then I think the easiest method is to use an invisible <iframe>. From Javascript, you can set the "src" property of the <iframe> to fire off a request while leaving the rest of the page alone. You could spend the rest of your career reading all of the good web material on AJAX. -- Tim Roberts, t...@probo.com Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
