Posted by Scott on 04/02/06 04:40

Jim,

This sounds like a great project to learn on. However, it's quite a bit
of instruction for a newsgroup format. I'd start by learning some basic
database interaction and form processing. There are lots of tutorials
available on www.phpfreaks.com that will get you going in the right
direction.

Good luck!

Scott

On Sat, 2006-04-01 at 19:09 +0000, Jim Whitaker wrote:
> Please help. What would the code look like to do the following?
> Say you were working with customer and order tables. You are entering a
> new order, and key in the customer id in the orders table. Or even choose
> from a dropdown. Now say you have several other fields about that customer
> that you want filled in from the customer table, ie name, address, phone,
> etc... Once that customerid is entered and a tab key is hit, how do you
> have the other fields looked up and auto filled in in code?
> Please be basic here, I am new to php programming. But the auto fill in is
> wat I am trying to learn. By the way, I'm not looking for a short list type
> of thing, assume the customer table has several thousand records. Ive
> heard of doing thing this with ajax. Ok how? I have no idea how the code
> would look. So far I'm only up to a simple flat file database. I'm trying
> to learn more now. Please see this for a more detailed description of what
> I'm after. http://www.codecomments.com/archive227-2005-9-623448.html
>
>

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