Re: Notification of listbox selection change

Larry Martell wrote: > On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Tedd Sperling <tedd@sperling.com> wrote: >> On Dec 9, 2013, at 3:40 PM, Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Is there any way in php to have a function be called when the value of >>> a listbox selection changes? >> >> Larry: >> >> Sure, take a look at this: >> >> http://php1.net/a/zipcode-states/ The "javascript" *label* at the beginning of the onchange attribute's value of the select elements is superfluous. The javascript pseudo *protocol* is only valid for attributes that expect a URI -- but it might better be avoided[1]. > Thanks very much for this. I just got around to trying it, and I > adapted it for my needs and it's basically working. The one issue I > have is that my request returns a complete new page and I want to > replace the existing page with that. The problem is that the request > originates from a frame and when I try and replace the page with the > response the new page get rendered within the frame. Do you know how > to replace the entire page with the response? To relace the current document with a new one, you can use the location property of the window object[2]. In this case using a XMLHttpRequest object is not necessary at all. > I realized this is not really a PHP question, but I wanted to > continue this thread here as others could benefit from it. It might be better to separate concerns. :) [1] <http://pointedears.de/scripts/faq/cljs/#javascriptURI> [2] <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Window.location> -- Christoph M. Becker