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Posted by Tyrone Slothrop on 10/04/06 14:33
On Wed, 04 Oct 2006 13:11:39 GMT, sk <someone@somewhere.org> wrote:
>I am trying to design a 'form?' using php, mysql and apache that does
>the following.
> 1. enter data using forms
> 2. do lookup using form that will display council persons or
>committees.. user will be able to select one and the system will display
>either the council people on committee or the committees that the
>council person is on.
>
>There will be more but right now I am working on the lookup portion.
>Would I use php to do sql select from either database and then 'somehow'
>put that into an html/xhtml select function? If that is the direction
>how do I take that select function to get one entry back to the
>database? etc? etc?
>
>TIA
You could use AJAX, COMET, or DOM. Any of these methods could search
and display the options. The first two rely heavily on JS/DHTML,
while the third uses predominently PHP.
Do a bit of research and decide on the method which you think would
best work for you based on your skills (or desire to learn).
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