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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 06/17/07 14:19
sooseong.ng@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am a newbie and recently just delved into the scripting world of
> PHP. Currently I am doing
> a webform that consists many fields. I have three combobox with state
> selection which
> will retrieve the items from a database table called state. The
> dumbest and direct way would
> be creating a connection and querying the data each time, which means
> three connections
> connected just to querying same piece of information. I am wondering
> if it is possible to
> refactor them into using one connection to query the states, and
> assign the value to each
> combobox. Then i will need not to query thrice. Any idea?
>
Well, first of all, PHP wouldn't create connections for this - PHP is
strictly server side. But you can use PHP to generate the <option>
tags for your select boxes when you're building your page.
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