Drop Down Menu Help

[sebthib55]

I made a drop down menu in a search feature. The search feature works great, except I wanted to add an extra feature to it...

 

What I want is if a user selects GAME in the drop down, I wish to make a new drop down menu appear displaying categories... How can I do this? I've googled, but received no answer.

 

 

 

<?PHP


echo"<form action='' method='get'>
Term: <input type='text' value='' name='search' /> <br /><br />
Search by: <br /><select size='1' name='by'>
<option value='game'>Game</option>
<option  value='item'>Item</option>
<option value='name'>User</option>
<option  value='usershop'>Usershop</option></select>";


//If User Selects GAME display Categories below
echo"<br />In Category: <select size='1' name='searchcat'>
<option value='All' selected='selected'>All</option>";
$catquery=run_query("SELECT * FROM phpqa_cats");
while ($catlist= mysql_fetch_array($catquery)) echo  "<option value='$catlist[0]'>$catlist[1]</option>";
//End Display Categories
?>

</select><br /><br />
<input type='submit' value='search' name='action' />
<br /><br />
</form>

[pocobueno1388]

You would have to use JavaScript to do this, not PHP.

[sebthib55]

I figured that I had to do Javascript and thats also what I googled and couldn't find a thing...

[teng84]

thats ajax thing

 

search for php ajax

[sebthib55]

I will try that... I hope it works as I am not too familiar with Ajax...

Thanks...

[sebthib55]

I cannot seem to find the solution...

[cmgmyr]

do a search for "chained selects" you will find tons

[sebthib55]

OOoo that might be exactly what I need... I guess its the important thing when searching is the "keywords"

 

Thanks!

[sebthib55]

I feel really dumb right now as I cannot figure this out... I look at my code and I cannot seem to figure out how they go with the code I made....