Re: [PHP] Linked drop down selection lists and dynamically generatedlinks

2002-07-07 Thread Miguel Cruz
On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Alberto Serra wrote: > A 100% robust solution should contain both, and call PHP only if jscript > is not available on the client. But this is costly and requires the two > procedures to be realigned everytime you have some change going on. Most > applications can just use ja

Re: [PHP] Linked drop down selection lists and dynamically generatedlinks

2002-07-06 Thread Alberto Serra
Naintara Jain wrote: > this is of course, keeping in mind, that your backend (database data) is not > changing every few seconds. If you are dealing with dynamic data, such that > the list options might be changing at every moment then you would need the > latest database data and PHP would need t

Re: [PHP] Linked drop down selection lists and dynamically generatedlinks

2002-07-06 Thread Alberto Serra
ðÒÉ×ÅÔ! Peter Goggin wrote: > Can this be done using only PHP or do I need to use Javascripts? managing this in PHP should be considered *only* when jscript is not available. It's a matter of load distribution. When doing client server applications (like the web is) you shall always remember