Michael,
Many thanks for your help.
I've opted for the 'straight PHP' route and, in the process, saved
myself a lot of time pointlessly trying to see if JavaScript could read
from the database.
Michael Egan
Michael Hall wrote:
You can certainly do what you want in straight PHP if you
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
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.
But, you can use PHP to dynamically create your .js file that your
HTML file calls. Load each of your options and sub options into js
arrays and write a js function that swaps out the pull down options
on the onChange event of the previous pull down. Depending on the
number of options you
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Subject: Re: [PHP] 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
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