I have $abc = "http://somewebsite.com/somefile.jpg". How do I show this URL in an input box so that the user can easily copy the link with a single click? Thanks everyone in advance.
3 Answers
Standart input: $input = "<input type='text' value='$abc' />"
If you want copy it by click - you need swf/js. But you can look this question for such solution.
8 Comments
asprin
What about the JS part? No example for that?
stasgrin
JS solutions dont work good. So mostly flash objects are used for that.
Eyal Alsheich
flash is a dieing technology, and will not be natively supported in the near future, i would stay away from flash unless there is no other method of accomplishing your goals
stasgrin
@relentless I dont said it's better. But you are right, flash is
better way coz it works in all browsers and in 100% cases. JS.. have many troubles with it and single solution for single browser. Read my link please and find out lot of new :)stasgrin
@EyalAlsheich All are saying that flash dies (and i agree with that mostly).. but it still alive. And
HTML5.. isnt good enough yet. Even Facebook denied html5-way of development and moves back to flash. |
The copying is mostly done in Flash, most browsers do not allow to access the clipboard from javascript for security reasons. You will need to pass the data to be copied to Flash, and place it inside the clipboard from there on.
Maybe this can help you: http://code.google.com/p/zeroclipboard/
Comments
You can put your URL in a input box like this before the page has rendered....
file.php
<?php
$abc = "http://somewebsite.com/somefile.jpg";
?>
<input type="text" name="someURL" value="<?php echo $abc;?>" />
OR file.php
<?php
$abc = "http://somewebsite.com/somefile.jpg";
echo "<input type=\"text\" name=\"someURL\" value=\"".$abc."\" />";
?>
As for the copying - fiddly stuff
<input type="text" value="<?php echo $abc; ?>" />copy to clipboardkind of functionality. If so, it is not a foolproof method. See this - stackoverflow.com/questions/400212/…