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    copied!<p>I'm trying to develop a private message system using php/mysql. </p> <p>I've got a database set up like this: </p> <pre><code>CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS `messages` ( `messageID` int(25) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT, `msgTo` varchar(24) NOT NULL, `msgFrom` varchar(24) NOT NULL, `subject` varchar(100) NOT NULL, `message` text NOT NULL, `sendTime` timestamp NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP, PRIMARY KEY (`messageID`) ) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1; </code></pre> <p>I list the messages sent to a specific username as follows: </p> <pre><code>&lt;?php $query = "SELECT * FROM messages WHERE msgTo = '$username'"; // I know SELECT * should be avoided but there's not many columns here anyway $result = mysql_query($query); while($messages = mysql_fetch_array($result)){ ?&gt; &lt;ul class='lbe_list'&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;a href=''&gt; &lt;?php echo "From: ".$messages['msgFrom']."&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Subject: ".$messages['subject'];?&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;?php } </code></pre> <p>Which lists the sender and the subject of the message. </p> <p><strong>However, I want to be able to click the username and subject here, and use JavaScript to expand the window so it will list the message itself below. Like the following:</strong></p> <pre><code>&lt;a href=''&gt; &lt;?php echo "From: ".$messages['msgFrom']."&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;Subject: ".$messages['subject'];?&gt; &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/ul&gt; &lt;?php // on click expand/hide $messages['message']; ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>Any help will be appreciated</p>
 

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