Populate dropdown box (2), based on what was selected in box (1)

[natchattack]

Another one that i cant seem to get my head around. I i need to populate a secondary dropdown box based on what the user selected in the first one.

say for instance the first dropdown box contained: Dog, Cat & Rabbit.

If the user selects, Dog, i wish for a new set of options to become availible in the next dropdown box: Food, Bones, Toys etc. Or should the user select, Cat, a different set of values instead.

From doing some googling there seems to be a lot of hefty looking javascript to do the job, but it looks really long winded and i am clueless at it. Hopefully there is a fairly simple way to achieve this in PHP.

Thanks in advance.

[chrishea]

http://remysharp.com/2007/01/20/auto-populating-select-boxes-using-jquery-ajax/

http://www.codingcereal.com/2009/09/autopopulate-select-dropdown-box-using-jquery/

[natchattack]

That 2nd link was spot on. Many thanks :)