Re: Conditional Popup Menus with PHP/mySQL and Java?
| From: | Justin French | Date: | Thu, 15 Aug 2002 14:23:45 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Conditional Popup Menus with PHP/mySQL and Java? | ||
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This is a javascript thing. Try comp.lang.javascript... the only thing u
really need to know is that you have to send ALL the data to the page with
javascript, then effectively, it's a static HTML page.
Justin French
on 16/08/02 12:19 AM, Dan Tappin (dan@wavefront.ca) wrote:
> I am looking for an example of conditional menus using PHP / mySQL to
> populate the options and values of the menus and java to change these
> properties with out needing to submit the form to update it.
>
> Here is the best, closest example I could find using a static page:
>
> http://www.webreference.com/js/tips/020112.html
>
> I am looking to create a set of popup menus via PHP and mySQL such as:
>
> <FORM NAME="menu">
> <SELECT NAME="menu1" onChange="somejavascript()">
> <OPTION VALUE="1" SELECTED>Animal
> <OPTION VALUE="2">Vegetable
> <OPTION VALUE="3">Mineral
> </SELECT>
>
> <SELECT NAME="menu2">
> <OPTION VALUE="1.1" SELECTED>Cat
> <OPTION VALUE="1.2">Dog
> <OPTION VALUE="1.3">Horse
> </SELECT>
> </FORM>
>
> The idea being that when I change menu1 the choices on menu2 change
> accordingly. Menu1 is easy. The java script to make menu2 is where I am
> lost. The link above is great but it does not address setting the values of
> menu2. Also the java uses the text of menu1 not the values (1,2,3 etc).
> These values are the id values from my mySQL DB and make the queries easier.
>
> Any ideas / examples out there?
>