Link mouseover

Is it possible in php?

[ajs83]

Is it possible to use a link mouseover in php?

[dreamcatcher]

Do you mean a tooltip?

echo '<a href="link.htm" title="This Link">';

If you mean javascript mouseover effects, then no. PHP cannot perform any client side operations.

[ajs83]

I mean when some one hovers over the link, the destination is not shown in the status bar.

[davelms]

As dreamcatcher wrote you *can*, but it's not PHP that does it. This is a client-side or javascript question. Something like might do what you want, within the A tag itself... it might not work in all browsers:

onMouseOver='window.status="Some alternative text here"; return true' onMouseOut='window.status="Done"; return true'

[ajs83]

Here is the code im trying to use

echo "<tr height=28><td height=15 bordercolor=lightgrey bgcolor=lightgrey><table width=100%><tr><td align=left><b>$points</b> Points</td><td align=right><a onmouseover="window.status='Complete';return true onmouseout="window.status=' ';return true;" href=\"$url$sid\" target=_blank>Complete</A>";

But when I try top call up the page I get a

"Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';'

[Salsa]

You just need to escape all of the double quotes in the string, and I think you'll be okay.

[ajs83]

I'm just beginning to work with php, what is the acceptable alternative to the double quotes?

[Salsa]

Just put backslashes in front of them as you did with

href=\"$url$sid\"

. As it is, you're getting the error because PHP thinks you want to echo out only up to...

"window.status

...because it thinks you mean to close the quotes there. To tell PHP that you mean to use a litereal double quote there, escape the quote with a backslash:

\"