Re: Dynamically created dropdowns

You can certainly do what you want in straight PHP if you include a form submission after selecting the manufacturer. There is probably a way of doing it in JavaScript without a form submission, but not one that will read data from a MySQL database on a remote machine. JavaScript can't do that. Michael On Tue, 4 Dec 2001, Michael Egan wrote: > Hope this isn't an inappropriate message to send to this list. I suspect > the response will largely concern JavaScript. > > Is there a way of altering the contents of one drop down menu according > to the item selected in another? > > I'm creating a page allowing users to identify the make and model of > computers received by our charity for refurbishment. Ideally I'd like to > allow them to select a manufacturer from a drop down menu and for a > separate drop down menu to then be populated by the models produced by > that manufacturer. > > I have two separate tables in a MySQL database, one for manufacturers > and one for models with the latter containing a field for the > manufacturer ID. > > Is this possible? > > Michael Egan > > -- ################################ Michael Hall admin@openlearningcommunity.org m.hall@latis.net.au http://openlearningcommunity.org