Capturing user clicks within Spry Tabbed Panels

Question

Hi,
I am using the spry tabbed panels with CS3 for the first time
and need to capture when a user clicks on a new tab. I need this to
re-set a PHP variable when the user navigates to a new tab but
cannot see any documented way of getting this trigger.
Any help would be much appreciated!

Answer 1

pixel1024 wrote:
> I am using the spry tabbed panels with CS3 for the first
time and need to
> capture when a user clicks on a new tab. I need this to
re-set a PHP variable
> when the user navigates to a new tab but cannot see any
documented way of
> getting this trigger.
Spry is a client-side technology; PHP is server-side. To
reset a PHP
variable, you need to communicate with the server. I have
done only very
limited experimentation with using Spry 1.6 to communicate
with PHP on
the server, so can't offer much advice. However, you might
find the
following page points you in the right direction (view the
source code
to see how it's done on the client side):
http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/spry/samples/form_submission/SubmitFormWithXHRSample.ph p.html
That example uses onsubmit with a form. I haven't tried it,
but you
should be able to adapt it by using onclick.
David Powers, Adobe Community Expert
Author, "The Essential Guide to Dreamweaver CS3" (friends of
ED)
Author, "PHP Solutions" (friends of ED)
http://foundationphp.com/