Running PHP inside a javascript function?

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I have the following code which executes when a user prints a page (It's set as the background in a CSS Style Sheet in the @print section).

$BGImage = background-image:url(logit.php?RectNo=$RectNo&DBForLogit=db04)";

What that does is insert a record into my MySQL database logging the fact that a record has been printed.

Is there a way to get JS, a client side app to tell PHP, a server side app to launch a php script?

I need logit.php to fire off inside the print()function rather than during an onload fucntion.

Any help or pointers greatly appreciated.

[BliarOut]

I can't take all the credit but it works very well Unfortunately I'm moving over to PDF creation on the fly and the class that I use doesn't currently support the background-image css command

I only use PHP and JS, I don't really have time to go learn another language for one task, I just need to get JS to tell my script to run. I can pass it PHP variables but I don't know how to say the following

{{{
function printMe() {
print ()
./logit.php?RectNo=$RectNo&DBForLogit=db04
}
}}}

Can't be that difficult, surely I'm only calling a url effectively??

[BliarOut]

Well I couldn't quite get that to work, but it pointed me in the right direction

I ended up using a xmlhttp request which means I can pass php variables into js and then use them in my new function

I can see how that's going to be very useful when I polish my app

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Fortunately my script checks the version of the request and uses activex for older versions of IE. It's been a useful exercise as I'll be moving on to storing options for the site in MySQL soon and AJAX could come in handy for that.

It's not such a leap as I thought