Re: Populate Popup Menu from Database

On Saturday 29 June 2002 23:41, Mike Tuller wrote: > I have some popup menus and want the items in the menu to be populated from > a database. In this case I have a table that contains a listing of > departments. I have a page that I can go in and add/delete departments, and > want the changes to reflect in the menu the next time you go to the page. > > I searched for examples and found this: > > > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general&m=97628169623096&w=2 > > What is here is beyond my understanding, and seems like it is a little much > for what I need. > > Here is what my database table looks like: > > Departments > department_id > department_name > > I just want to list the department name in the popup. There are two things you need to know: 1) How to construct a select list in HTML 2) How to retrieve the info from the db What are you having problems with? -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * /* The only rose without thorns is friendship. */