help please

[spearchilduser]

Hi is there a way to populate a textbox with the details selected in a select box in php i basically have a select box and a textbox for the user to select an option they can either select from the drop box or write in text i dont know how if they sleect from the drop box to populate the textbox or say that one or the other has to be filled out i only know how to print a error message to say one needs to be filled out

 

any help at all ?~

 

[samshel]

Not sure if this is related to PHP. You can achieve what you want quite easily by using HTML + JS.

 

If you want server side validations then you can use PHP.

[spearchilduser]

is it possible to add js onto the select box which is populated from a database ? if so then i apologise ive added it to the wrong thread?

[samshel]

SELECT box is HTML , you can JS which will will handle the population of text box or do any other action.

 

PHP is a server side language and will provide you data for the drop box, but client side rendering is HTML and JS [if you use it].

[spearchilduser]

ok then thank you so ill need to use js on the select box function so its the wrong area of the forum my appologise and thanx for the reply