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mdmartiny

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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>

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