Php/ajax - Country/state Chained Select Options

[quasiman]

I have a pair of ajax country / state select boxes that I want to autopopulate from the users profile. The country is selected from a db query, but I can't figure out how to have it select the state too. On page load the countries are listed and the users country selected, but the state select doesn't recognize that it's already populated.

 

Here's my code...any help would be appreciated:

 

ajax

<script type="text/javascript">
function Inint_AJAX() {
try { return new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP"); } catch(e) {}
try { return new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); } catch(e) {}
try { return new XMLHttpRequest(); } catch(e) {}
alert("XMLHttpRequest not supported");
return null;
};
function dochange(src, val) {
var req = Inint_AJAX();
req.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (req.readyState==4) {
if (req.status==200) {
document.getElementById(src).innerHTML=req.responseText;
}
}
};
req.open("GET", "country.php?data="+src+"&val="+val);
req.setRequestHeader("Content-Type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=iso-8859-1");
req.send(null);
}
window.onload=dochange('country', -1);
	 </script>

 

fields:

<tr>
<td><strong>Country</strong></td>
<td><span id="country"></span></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><strong>State</strong></td>
<td><span id="state"><input name="state" type="text" value="" /></span></td>
</tr>

 

country.php

<?php
include ('includes/functions.php');
$data = $_GET['data'];
$val = $_GET['val'];
if ($data == 'country') {
echo "<select name='country' onchange=\"dochange('state', this.value)\">\n";
echo "<option value='0'>===Choose a country===</option>\n";
$query = "SELECT `id`, `iso`, `country` FROM regions ORDER BY `country`";
$result = $mysqli->query($query) or die($mysqli->error . __LINE__);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
 while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
	 echo "<option value='" . $row['id'] . "' " . ($customer['country'] == $row['iso'] ? 'selected=\"selected\"' : '') . " >" . $row['country'] . "</option> \n";
 }
}
} else if ($data == 'state') {
$query = "SELECT id,region_id,name FROM subregions WHERE region_id = '$val'";
$result = $mysqli->query($query) or die($mysqli->error . __LINE__);
if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
 echo "<select name='state' >\n";
 echo "<option value='0'>====Choose State ====</option>\n";
 while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
	 echo "<option value='" . $row['name'] . "' >" . $row['name'] . "</option> \n";
 }
} else {
 echo "<input name=\"state\" type=\"text\" name=\"other\" value='Other' \">";
}
}
echo "</select>\n";
?>

[quasiman]

Alright, no response....still working on this. I've switched to jquery, but same results - I can't see how to autoselect the state when a country is preselected. See my new code below:

 

jquery

<script src="<? echo _TEMPLATE;?>/js/jquery-1.7.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
		    <script type="text/javascript">
			    $(document).ready(function()
			    {
				    $(".country").change(function()
				    {
					    var dataString = 'id='+ $(this).val();
					    $.ajax
					    ({
						    type: "POST",
						    url: "state.php",
						    data: dataString,
						    cache: false,
						    success: function(html)
						    {
							    $(".state").html(html);
						    }
					    });
				    });
			    });
		    </script>

 

fields:

<tr>
   <td><strong>Country</strong></td>
   <td><select name="country" class="country">
   <option selected="selected">--Select Country--</option>
   <?php
       $query = "SELECT `id`, `iso`, `country` FROM regions ORDER BY `country`";
       $result = $mysqli->query($query) or die($mysqli->error . __LINE__);
       if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
           while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
               echo "<option value='" . $row['id'] . "' " . ($customer['country'] == $row['iso'] ? 'selected=\"selected\"' : '') . " >" . $row['country'] . "</option> \n";
           }
       }
   ?>
   </select></td>
</tr>

 

state.php

<?php
include ('includes/functions.php');
if($_POST['id'])
{
$id=$_POST['id'];
   $query = "SELECT id,region_id,name FROM subregions WHERE region_id = '$id'";
   $result = $mysqli->query($query) or die($mysqli->error . __LINE__);
   if ($result->num_rows > 0) {
    echo "<select name='state' >\n";
    echo "<option value='0'>====Choose State ====</option>\n";
    while ($row = $result->fetch_assoc()) {
	    echo "<option value='" . $row['name'] . "' >" . $row['name'] . "</option> \n";
    }
   } else {
    echo "<input name=\"state\" type=\"text\" name=\"other\" />";
   }
}
?>

[quasiman]

Nevermind, I got it...

 

$(document).ready(function()
{
   $(".country").change(function()
   {
       var dataString = 'id='+ $(this).val();						   
       $.ajax
       ({
           type: "POST",
           url: "state.php",
           data: dataString,
           cache: false,
           success: function(html)
           {
               $(".state").html(html);
           }
       });
   });
   $(".country").change(function() {  // bind a change event:
       $(this).val();
   }).change(); // and trigger a "change" event immediately
});