Change Value Of Onclick Function Vars

I have the onClick function attached to a button. I want to be able to change the function var from 'create' to 'update' on the page load and through other functions. I have tried

Solution 1:

$("#save_customer").click(function(){
    customer_crud("read");
});

Is how you would do this.

EDIT:

$("#save_customer").click(function(){
    customer_crud("update");
});

In jQuery you can set the value of the "onClick" attribute/event with .click(function(){/* Attribute content */});

Solution 2:

Don't use inline handlers if possible. They don't get proper scope, and also rely on the highly-frowned upon eval to do their work.

Instead, in your .js file, you can just do this:

var action = 'create';
$('#save_customer').click(function() {
      customer_crud(action);
      action = 'update';
});

The first time the handler is invoked it'll do create, and then subsequently do an update.

I put a working demo at http://jsfiddle.net/QzaXU/