Re: related combo boxes

Would your solution g. work if two users were trying to do this at the same time? ""G. Wiersma"" <g.wiersma@chello.nl> wrote in message news:39722759.2FF9504D@chello.nl... > > > David Metzler wrote: > > > I'm new to web programming so this question while it makes sense to me may > > be a bad question. If so feel free to straighten me out. I have however > > programmed for a while with older languages. > > > > Let's say I have two combo boxes on a web page. For example: Music Artists: > > and Songs: > > The idea is to have the user select the artist then use that answer in a > > dynamically generated where clause of a sql query to populate the list in > > the song control. > > > > I've been told that due to the stateless nature of web servers in general > > and Apache specifically the history of the first artist selection is lost. > > > > The sugestion was to use javascript. > > > > I'm trying to visualize this in my head and so far have the following > > questions. > > > > 1. Is this true and if so what would this javascript do exactly and what > > would the code look like? > > 2. Are cookies an alternative. > > 3. What about the new session managment in PHP4. Could that be used somehow > > to eliminate the need for javascript? > > 4. If there is more than one way to do this what are the advantages and > > disadvantages of the possible solutions? > > > > My solution to this would be something like this: > You make a box that request the artist or the song and let the user press a > button. > Then you give the variable to a list.php?artistname > and do a sql query with the artist name in that php file. > > > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net >