Re: refreshing form select boxes with javascript. possible?

Hi, Javascript could be a solution, but only if you have reasonable amount of data. You can find attached a sample HTML page which uses the DOM for doing this. HTH Sorin Ifrim ----- Original Message ----- From: Kepa Lyman <kepa@oceanvoyages.com> To: <php-db@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2001 2:09 AM Subject: [PHP-DB] refreshing form select boxes with javascript. possible? > > Hi, > > I have a MySQL database that contains a table of composer names/ID > numbers, another of symphonies/ID numbers, and another of > symphonies/composer ID's. The problem is that under the search form > now, the search by name does a simple query to the symphonies/ID table > and gets back a result of all available symphonies. > This is cumbersome. What I would like to be able to do, is once the > composer name select box on the search form is selected, have the > symphony name form re-update itself to include only those symphonies > done by the composer. I imagine this would use a javascript "onSelect," > but every time I try to include PHP code in a onselect it gets run > anyway. Any way around this? Can javascript call an exterior PHP > include or something? Without refreshing the whole page? Any ideas? > > the url for the project is symphonynet.datablocks.net. It's the free > datablocks php/MySQL deal, sometimes the connection is pretty slow. > > Thanks, > > Kepa Lyman > > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-db-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-db-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >