Form handling - Yet again!

[vidyashankara]

Lets say I have 2 drop down boxes - X and Y.
X has the names of a certian number of files.
Y has to read the files and display certian rows in the file.

How do you do that?

[thepip3r]

way too vague. are you talking about upon the selection of X, the different selections in Y changes to different readable lines in X?

[vidyashankara]

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way too vague. are you talking about upon the selection of X, the different selections in Y changes to different readable lines in X?
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here is an example.

The values of X are A, B, C, D.
If the user selects A, The script must read A.txt and the values of Y should be all the rows in A.txt.

Is it clearer now?

[thepip3r]

if you wanted it to happen "on-the-fly" (without having to press a "submit" button) you'd have to use a client-side scripting lang like Javascript or Perl. Otherwise, you'd have to select A,B,C, or D, hit Submit and then Y could be propogated with different lines in A.txt, B.txt, etc.

[vidyashankara]

[!--quoteo(post=383960:date=Jun 14 2006, 02:19 PM:name=thepip3r)--][div class=\'quotetop\']QUOTE(thepip3r @ Jun 14 2006, 02:19 PM) [snapback]383960[/snapback][/div][div class=\'quotemain\'][!--quotec--]
if you wanted it to happen "on-the-fly" (without having to press a "submit" button) you'd have to use a client-side scripting lang like Javascript or Perl. Otherwise, you'd have to select A,B,C, or D, hit Submit and then Y could be propogated with different lines in A.txt, B.txt, etc.
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Looks like i need to learn javascript!