[php] Call a PHP function after onClick HTML event

Purpose: Call a PHP function to read data from a file and rewrite it. I used PHP only for this purpose - FileIO - and I'm new to PHP.

Solution? I tried through many forums and knew that we cannot achieve it normal way: onClick event > call function. How can we do it, are there other ways, particularly in my case? My HTML code and PHP code is on the same page: Admin.php. This is HTML part:

<form>
    <fieldset>
        <legend>Add New Contact</legend>
        <input type="text" name="fullname" placeholder="First name and last name" required /> <br />
        <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="[email protected]" required /> <br />
        <input type="text" name="phone" placeholder="Personal phone number: mobile, home phone etc." required /> <br />
        <input type="submit" name="submit" class="button" value="Add Contact" onClick="" />
        <input type="button" name="cancel" class="button" value="Reset" />
    </fieldset>
</form>

This is PHP part:

function saveContact()
{
    $datafile = fopen ("data/data.json", "a+");
    if(!$datafile){
        echo "<script>alert('Data not existed!')</script>";
    } 
    else{
        ...
        $contact_list = $contact_list . addNewContact();
        ...
        file_put_contents("data/data.json", $contact_list);
    }

    fclose($datafile);
}

function addNewContact()
{
   $new = '{';
   $new = $new . '"fullname":"' . $_GET['fullname'] . '",';
   $new = $new . '"email":"' . $_GET['email'] . '",';
   $new = $new . '"phone":"' . $_GET['phone'] . '",';
   $new = $new . '}';
   return $new;
}

Have a look at these code, I want to call saveContact when people click on Add Contact button. We can reload page if need so. FYI, I use JQuery, HTML5 in page as well. Thanks,

<div id="sample"></div>   
 <form>
        <fieldset>
            <legend>Add New Contact</legend>
            <input type="text" name="fullname" placeholder="First name and last name" required /> <br />
            <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="[email protected]" required /> <br />
            <input type="text" name="phone" placeholder="Personal phone number: mobile, home phone etc." required /> <br />
            <input type="submit" name="submit" id= "submitButton" class="button" value="Add Contact" onClick="" />
            <input type="button" name="cancel" class="button" value="Reset" />
        </fieldset>
    </form>

<script>

    $(document).ready(function(){
         $("#submitButton").click(function(){
            $("#sample").load(filenameofyourfunction?the the variable you need);
         });
    });

</script>

 cell1.innerHTML="<?php echo $customerDESC; ?>";
 cell2.innerHTML="<?php echo $comm; ?>";
 cell3.innerHTML="<?php echo $expressFEE; ?>";
 cell4.innerHTML="<?php echo $totao_unit_price; ?>";

it is working like a charm, the javascript is inside a php while loop

You don't need javascript for doing so. Just delete the onClick and write the php Admin.php file like this:

<!-- HTML STARTS-->
<?php
//If all the required fields are filled
if (!empty($GET_['fullname'])&&!empty($GET_['email'])&&!empty($GET_['name']))
{
function addNewContact()
    {
    $new = '{';
    $new .= '"fullname":"' . $_GET['fullname'] . '",';
    $new .= '"email":"' . $_GET['email'] . '",';
    $new .= '"phone":"' . $_GET['phone'] . '",';
    $new .= '}';
    return $new;
    }

function saveContact()
    {
    $datafile = fopen ("data/data.json", "a+");
    if(!$datafile){
        echo "<script>alert('Data not existed!')</script>";
        } 
    else{
        $contact_list = $contact_list . addNewContact();
        file_put_contents("data/data.json", $contact_list);
        }
    fclose($datafile);
    }

// Call the function saveContact()
saveContact();
echo "Thank you for joining us";
}
else //If the form is not submited or not all the required fields are filled

{ ?>

<form>
    <fieldset>
        <legend>Add New Contact</legend>
        <input type="text" name="fullname" placeholder="First name and last name" required /> <br />
        <input type="email" name="email" placeholder="[email protected]" required /> <br />
        <input type="text" name="phone" placeholder="Personal phone number: mobile, home phone etc." required /> <br />
        <input type="submit" name="submit" class="button" value="Add Contact"/>
        <input type="button" name="cancel" class="button" value="Reset" />
    </fieldset>
</form>
<?php }
?>
<!-- HTML ENDS -->

Thought I don't like the PHP bit. Do you REALLY want to create a file for contacts? It'd be MUCH better to use a mysql database. Also, adding some breaks to that file would be nice too...

Other thought, IE doesn't support placeholder.