Drop Down Box

[pucker22]

Hello phpfreaks,

 

I'm trying to code a piece of script, whereby when someone selects their location, through a drop down box, it will print out another box with a city, for example

 

<Drop Down Box>

United States

United Kingdom

 

If United States is selected then echo another drop down box.

 

Is someone able to help me?

 

Thanks!

[anon_login_001]

Do you desire to do this with or without the page reloading? Or does it matter?

[revraz]

http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,155984.0.html

[pucker22]

Hi anon,

Thanks for the quick reply.

 

I would like to have the page non refresh if possible, however whichever is easiest, although I'm not looking for a redirect, such as a javascript drop-down box redirect.

 

Thanks!

[mbeals]

i've done it both ways.  Javascript is the toughest especially if you are pulling data from a database, but AJAX does make it 'easier'.  Easiest way is to just add a onchage=this.form.submit() to the first select box, have the form action call the parent page and have code that catches the selected value and populates the second box.

 

Having done it both ways, on a fast connection, I have yet to see a difference in performance between the two methods.

[anon_login_001]

revraz  supplied a pretty decent link. Take your time and go thru those instructions, and ask questions about that if you have more.

 

If you figure it out, be sure to mark this post as Solved.

 

 

[pucker22]

Thanks for the responce,

 

The tutorial seems to be pulling information from a database, rather than just having a php page whereby if you select a county, it will then echo some text, for example,

 

<Drop Down Box>

United States

 

Then when the user selects United States it will produce this:

 

echo ' you selected united states '

 

Is this possible?

 

Thanks again!

[shedokan]

you should try doing it in javascript, if you don't want to use a database.

I'm not quite good in javascript but I think one of the fokes here might help ya.

[revraz]

Well why would you want to hard code all that data?

[DeanWhitehouse]

If you want help in doing it in javascript, i can help.

[Andy-H]

I am not too good with this kind of stuff but I think people in the AJAX or Javascript topic will be able to help you as I think you would need to use the onChange function