Posted by Paul Furman on 03/17/07 15:09

drblitzkrieg@gmail.com wrote:

> Hi, I have a page with 2 drop-down menus. The task is, when you select
> 1 menu, your selection then changes the options available in the
> other. This data happens to be drawn from a mysql database, so I
> wouldn't think that it could be done purely in Javascript, but rather
> a combination of PHP generating some JS code. Thing is, I don't even
> see how to change a set of menu options with JavaScript, only names
> and values of individual fields.
>
> Any hints and links to tutorials where the menu-changing part is
> explained would be appreciated.

I think you just run a tiny script from the <option> onmouseclick which
reloads the form, then when the form reloads, php sees the option value
has been set & formats the second option list.

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