mdmartiny Posted March 27, 2012 Share Posted March 27, 2012 I hope that this is in the right forum. I am in the process of writing a block of code that will allow the use of chained select boxes. I am pretty sure that it is a AJAX issue. When I select from the first select box. The second select box does not fill with anything. It gives me an empty select box. Here is the code that I am using. Anyone have any suggestions on what to do? <?php $host = 'localhost'; $username = 'root'; $dbname = 'classified'; $dbpassword = ''; $connection = mysql_connect($host, $username, $dbpassword); $db = mysql_select_db($dbname, $connection); if (!$connection) { die('Could not make a connection to MySql Database' . mysql_error()); } if (!$db) { die('Could not connect to DB $dbname' . mysql_error()); } function showCategory() { $select_sql = "SELECT * FROM category ORDER BY cat_id"; $cat_select = mysql_query($select_sql); $category = "<option value='0'>Select a Category......</option>"; while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($cat_select)) { $category .= "<option value='" . $row['cat_id'] . "'>" . $row['category'] . "</option>\n "; } return $category; } function subCategory() { $sub_sql = "Select * From sub_cat where cat_id='" . $_POST['id'] . "'"; $sub_select = mysql_query($sub_sql); $sub = "<option value='0'>Select a Sub Category</option>"; while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sub_select)) { $sub .= "<option value='" . $row['sub_cat_id'] . "'>" . $row['sub_cat'] . "</option>\n "; } return $sub; echo $_POST['id']; } ?> <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("select#sub_category").attr("disabled","disabled"); $("select#category").change(function(){ $("select#sub_category").attr("disabled","disabled"); $("select#sub_category").html("<option>wait...</option>"); var id = $("select#category option:selected").attr('value'); $.post("<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']; ?>", {id:id}, function(data){ $("select#sub_category").removeAttr("disabled"); $("select#sub_category").html(data); }); }); }); </script> </head> <body> <br/><form action="" method="post" name="cars"> <select id="category" name="category"> <?php $select_sql = "SELECT * FROM category ORDER BY cat_id"; $cat_select = mysql_query($select_sql); $category = "<option value='0'>Category</option>"; while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($cat_select)) { $category .= "<option value='" . $row['cat_id'] . "'>" . $row['category'] . "</option>\n "; } echo $category; ?> </select> <select id="sub_category" name="sub_category"> <?php $sub_sql = "Select * From sub_cat where cat_id='" . $_POST['id'] . "'"; $sub_select = mysql_query($sub_sql); $sub = "<option value='0'>Sub Category</option>"; while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($sub_select)) { $sub .= "<option value='" . $row['sub_cat_id'] . "'>" . $row['sub_cat'] . "</option>\n "; } echo $sub; echo $sub_sql; ?> </select> <input type="submit" name="fire" value="GO"/> </form> </body> </html> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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