disable buttons with php or javascript?

[lynn m]

I am working with php i want to log in as the administrator then 1) i wanna go to the administrator page 2) i want some buttons on that form to be disabled. and when i log in as the as the Manager, the other buttons are enabled while other disabled.

[mrman2289]

When you login as administrator set some sort of variable in PHP so you know its an admin or manager, e.g. $user=1;

Then when you go to write the HTML for your buttons just include a simple if statement inside the button html:

<input type="submit" name="blah" value="test" <? if ($user == 1) { echo 'disabled="disabled"'; } ?>/>

Hope this helps!

[Charlie Babbage]

Hi Lynn!

I'm no expert on this and sorry if I'm trying to teach my granddaughter to suck eggs (LOL) but hope the following comments may help.

As you may know, PHP is a server-side HTML embedded scripting language whereas Javascript is a client-side scripting language.

I'm not clear what you are trying to do. Where is the 'administrator page'? Do other people also have access to that page?

It appears you want different actions to occur depending on whether you log in as administrator or as manager. Are there different log in user names? If so you could use a statement such as IF login=administrator the load button x ELSE load button y

I hope you might get a better answer than this but, if not, try the php page - see source