Dynamic dropdown lists (select)
| From: | Angelo Zanetti | Date: | Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:51:43 +0000 |
| Subject: | Dynamic dropdown lists (select) | ||
| Groups: | php.general | ||
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Hi all,
I am looking at options for creating a dynamic dropdown list.
Ok here is the scenario:
All values in the dropdown list (select/option field) are coming from the
database.
So there will be 2 dropdown lists. First one say gets (for example) a list
of cars,
Then once the car is choosen the second list is populated with the list of
models for the car choosen.
I would like to know if its possible to do this without posting as well as
without the use of JS. I have seen js examples where the values are all
stored in arrays.
This is not desireable as I will be getting the values from the the DB using
PHP, unless I can write the JS values to the arrays using PHP? Also not sure
of that.
Is there any other idea or thing I can do? Im thinking maybe AJAX but this
is for a mobile site (WAP/xHTML) site and Im not sure if the functionality
will work on these devices.
Please advise.
Thanks in advance
Angelo
Web: http://www.elemental.co.za