闪亮-将JavaScript变量存储到mysql数据库

Question

I am working with shiny server.
My application has a search box input. Based on that input, the output is a dataTable which has clickable links .
My application's ui.r contains a JavaScript function that sets the value of a variable whenever a link is clicked. Let the variable be clickedLink . Now I want to store this value of link to mysql or any other database. How to go about this?

I have tried ajax , php with no use. What I did is described in this question: saving json data to json file using ajax PHP but I guess php files do not work with shiny. Please help.

EDIT 1

code added to ui.R

  tags$script(HTML("
     function clickFunction(clickedLink){
        //alert(clickedLink);
        var cl = clickedLink;
        Shiny.onInputChange('clickedLink',cl);
     }
  "))

code added to server.R

observe({
    print(input$clickedLink)

  })

EDIT 2
Just for information , the links are of the form

<a onclick="clickFunction(this.href); " target="_blank" href="http://SOMETING.com">SOMETHING</a>

Answer 1

I'm assuming you know how to save the variable once you get it in R. If not, use the RMySQL package and read their tutorial - https://github.com/rstats-db/RMySQL

So your main problem is getting the javascript variable into R. For that you can use Shiny.onInputChange. There's a short easy tutorial here https://ryouready.wordpress.com/2013/11/20/sending-data-from-client-to-server-and-back-using-shiny/

Basically, in javascript you would have Shiny.onInputChange("jsvar", clickedLink) and then you can treat jsvar as a regular reactive input, so in R you can do `observe({ saveToDb(input$jsvar) }) (you'd have to define saveToDb)