Posted by Rich on 10/10/48 11:45

On Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:52:59 -0400, Sonoman wrote...
>
>Hi all:
>I have an approach problem and I would like to hear how would others handle
>this. I have a NAICS database which consists of all the business categories
>in the US, the respective code number and a text description. The number is
>a 6 digit number where the first two are the main categories, the third is a
>sub category and so on. I have this already broken down on the database.
>
>There are way too many records to have a user browse through the whole
>thing, so what I though was to have a series 5 of drop down menus where the
>first has the main two digit categories and the others are blank. As soon as
>you selects a category from the first drop down the corresponding sub
>categories will show on the second drop down and so on until the user builds
>the correct NAICS number based on the selections.
>
>My question is how to do this? I was thinking on storing the selected values
>on cookies so I can keep reloading the page with a button until I am done.
>But this approach seems way too cumbersome.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>

From my understanding you would use the setcookie() function to create one, and
use the $_COOKIE array to retrieve the information. If you have a multi-step web
form, it may work out better going that route, so there's less redundant queries
to the database.

Rich

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