massiveattacker

there is no way i can do that in php?

great ken thx alot. it worked. i bumped into a tricky pary though, im making another file with three forms all within table cells, i want to have the first form to have 1-9 options:   [form1 of 9 options] if i select 3 for example, i want to get a tree like this: [formA]_____ [formB]            |____ [formB]           |____ [formB] now the user can select one of the 3 formB's and select from 1 to 9 again, lets say they select 5 from formB in the middle: [formA]_____ [formB]            |____ [formB]--------[formC]           |____ [formB]    |__ [formC]                                   |__ [formC]                                   |__ [formC]                                   |__ [formC]                                   i want to save the data in some way, can anyone help? please! 

thx alot ken, very prompt reply, but where do i put the code of dropdownmenu1 exactly?? i only want to see it before the first time i hit submit!

guys, i think u misunderstood me. my fault. what im trying to do is: i want three dropdown menus. each one has its own submit button. all in one php file. i run the file in the browser first and i get: dropdownmenu1 [submit] i click on submit i get: dropdownmenu2 [submit] ONLY! WITHOUT dropdownmenu1 i click on submit again and i get: dropdownmenu3 [submit] ONLY! WITHOUT dropdownmenu1 and  dropdownmenu2 thats it, please help!!

thx everyone. without you im nothing..

i apologize in advance if this sounds silly but im new to php: i want to have three forms in one php file only. i run the page and get the first form, i submit, i want the 2nd form to appear, i submit again, i want the third and final one to appear, with the others still there.  the problem is, everytime i submit the 2nd time everything gets messed up and dont know how to use flags to run the code for the php form only. you understand? so imagine i have code1 code2 code3, first time i want only code1 to show up. i submit i want only code2 to show, third time i want only code3 to execute. how should i set the flags? it is killing me!