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PHP A HREF not calling function with onclick

Why does this link not call the function?

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<?php
      function sendmailer() {
      $to = "tmiller@practicevelocity.com";
      $headers = "From: GoUrgentCare.com <info@gourgentcare.com>\r\n".
                        "Reply-To: donotreply@gourgentcare.com\r\n".
                 "X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
      $subject = "ZipPass Setup Instructions";
      $body = "
      1. Download
      2. Setup
      3. Create
      ";
      mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
}
?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="#" onclick="sendmailer()">Click here for instructions</a>
</body>
</html>

Emad Gawai

you are calling php function on javascript onclick()

nplib

because you can't call a php function from your html file.
that function is not seen by the client, so it can't be called.
it's processed by the server.

fo this
<?php
$to = "tmiller@practicevelocity.com";
$headers = "From: GoUrgentCare.com <info@gourgentcare.com>\r\n".
"Reply-To: donotreply@gourgentcare.com\r\n".
"X-Mailer: PHP/" . phpversion();
$subject = "ZipPass Setup Instructions";
$body = "
1. Download
2. Setup
3. Create
";
mail($to, $subject, $body, $headers);
header("location:".$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
?>
into it's own file without the funtion.
sendmail.php

then from html file

<a href="sendmail.php">Click here for instructions</a>

nplib

on click is only to call javascript, or vbscript functions.

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Emad Gawai

2. form.htm

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="submit.php">Click here for instructions</a>
</body>
</html>

nplib

if you don't have this line in your php
header("location:".$_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']);
after clicking the link, it will run the script and stay on that page. Blank.

nplib

Why did I not get an assist, since I said it first.
I said the same thing.