Dynamic page population with drop down

[brob]

Hi does anyone know of any good tutorials to show how to populate a page based on what is selected via a drop down without submitting to a new page?

 

Cheers

[monk.e.boy]

if you are not posting the results of the drop down back to the server, then you need to use client side stuff (javascript + DHTML)

 

monk.e.boy

[skali]

If you want not to submit page neither on same page nor on any other page then the solution is AJAX.

A basic tutorial can be found here: http://www.w3schools.com/ajax/default.asp

 

If you want it to be submitted to the same page where the dropdown is located then you will need a javascript function.

This javascript function will take data 'id' i suppose from your dropdown and will refresh the page with the value from the dropdown in the url.

<script language="javascript">
function refresh_page(dropdown){
  var id = dropdown.options[dropdown.options.selectedIndex].value;
  location = 'pageurl.php?id='+id;
}
</script>

 

on your dropdown list you can use onchange event.

onchange="refresh_page(this);"