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[alicefreak]

MY DropDown is working correctly. Can some one tell me how i can go abt the following:

I have a drop down menu with say 5 student name options and a text box which displays student address.

when I select one of the student name's i have to get the respective student address for the student name that i actually selected from drop down menu from my mysql database.

 

Thanks

[radar]

ajax is definately the way...

 

you would do an onChange="doSomething();" on the drop down..

 

then you'd run regular ajax to call/read the output from a php file....  you'd probably be best @ taking the results and putting them in a delimited form such as:

 

name:address:city:state:zip:grade:gpa etc..

 

then in javascript exploding that into an array and using document.getElementByID(id).value = to set each individual value...

 

otherwise you could throw your entire form into a span with an id or a div with an id and using PHP to echo out the entire HTML for the form and then using this inside javascript:

 

document.getElementByID(id).innerHTML = returnText