RE: [PHP-WINDOWS] REMOTE SCRIPTING

> I do not know if my previous mail was forwarded in the mailing list, so I > try again. > > My question : I use a lot remote scripting with my ASP pages that > are being > converted into PHP code. How can I perform this ? > > for those who do not know exactly what remote scripting is, let me explain > you what I would like to do in the PHP pages, maybe someone could help me. > > I would like to perform the following : > lets the user be abble to select an item in a combo. then, for some given > selected item, I have to search in the database (SQL), to get a > new list of > items for a second combo (sounds like a primary list and a > secondary list), > see what I mean ? > > In other words : How can I do some PHP code after the page has > been loaded, > according to the user ? By it's very definition, PHP cannot do any processing once the code has been sent to the client. There are a few ways around your problem, it all depends on what you prefer... 1). You could submit the response from the first drop-down list back to the server and have a second page that generates the two lists. 2). You could make all of the possible queires in one go at the start and output the resujlts as JavaScript arrays. When the user makes a selection from the first box, you then use JavaScript to change/display the contents of the first box. If the datasets are large, you may wish to cache the results to reduce overhead. 3). You could divide the page into separate <iframe>(IE)/<layer>(NS) tags, and use JavaScript to change the location of the layer that contains the second box to an encoded URL for a PHP page that produces the drop down box - I am not to sure how this would impact the form structure of your document (i.e. if you wanted both drop downs to be part of your next submission). I hope this helps... regards, Mikey