Load text dynamically depending on button press?

[lazerbrains]

I have a site that I have an about page with pictures of people on it. I would like to create something that would do the following:

 

* When you click on one of the images, i need text for that image to load in a text area.

 

I would like to do this rather than have to make a different HTML page for each person, but I am not sure how to go about doing it. I do not have a database for this site, so I will need to pull the text from a text file or something like that.

 

Any ideas on how to get started would be helpful.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

[acefirefighter]

This isn't really a php question but more for JavaScript especially if you aren't wanting the page to reload all of the time. I use what is called jQuery and I have a few pages for you to look at and maybe you can sort out what you want to do.

 

http://api.jquery.com/click/

 

http://api.jquery.com/show/

 

http://api.jquery.com/hide/

 

If you aren't wanting to use a database and aren't wanting to use files you can place all of your information that you want hidden in a div and "hide" it until a user "clicks" on the image and that would trigger the "show" if you were wanting to run from files I would look into jquery's post function but then you are getting into using an xml or json return which might just be overkill unless you have a ton of data.

 

Look at the code on this page too. It is for a tabbed menu but the same concepts can be utilized and the code is easy to sort out.

 

http://yensdesign.com/2008/12/create-a-smooth-tabbed-menu-in-jquery/

 

and here is one that explains what is happening in the jquery a little better and talks about jquery post

 

http://www.jasonbrennan.com/jquery/jquery-ajax-or-is-it-jquery-json/

 

Sorry about the rambling. I hope this gets you started. I may be a little slow to respond but I will get back to you.