Hey,
I'm trying to create a dynamic drop down box where the first drop down box populates the second drop down, but it isn't working. I have two tables;
pricelist with fields,
-id
-groupname
-item
-price
groups with fields,
-id
-groupname
I've got the code and to me it looks as though it completely works, but i think its the fact that two of the fields have the same name, and it's causing problems.
index.php
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script>
function getXMLHTTP() { //fuction to return the xml http object
var xmlhttp=false;
try{
xmlhttp=new XMLHttpRequest();
}
catch(e) {
try{
xmlhttp= new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
catch(e){
try{
req = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
}
catch(e1){
xmlhttp=false;
}
}
}
return xmlhttp;
}
function getItem(strURL) {
var req = getXMLHTTP();
if (req) {
req.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (req.readyState == 4) {
// only if "OK"
if (req.status == 200) {
document.getElementById('itemdiv').innerHTML=req.responseText;
} else {
alert("There was a problem while using XMLHTTP:\n" + req.statusText);
}
}
}
req.open("GET", strURL, true);
req.send(null);
}
}
</script>
<?
require_once('../sqlconnect/connect.php');
?>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" action="" name="form1">
<table width="60%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="25">Group</td>
<td width="15"><select name="group" onChange="getItem('findcity.php?group='+this.value)">
<option value="">Select Group</option>
<?
//make query
$query ="SELECT * FROM groups";
$result = mysql_query($query);
//run
$query = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM groups');
if(mysql_error())
{
print(mysql_error());
}
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
echo '<option value="'.$row["groupname"].' ">'.$row["groupname"];
}
?>
</select></td>
</tr>
<tr style="">
<td>Item</td>
<td ><div id="itemdiv"><select name="item">
<option>Select Item</option>
</select></div></td>findcity.php
<select name="item">
<option value="">Select Item</option>
<?
//if so, connect to database
require_once('../sqlconnect/connect.php');
$query="SELECT item FROM pricelist WHERE groupname=$groupname";
$result=mysql_query($query);
$query = mysql_query('SELECT * FROM pricelist');
if(mysql_error())
{
print(mysql_error());
}
while($row = mysql_fetch_array($query))
{
echo '<option value="'.$row["item"].' ">'.$row["item"];
}
?>
</select>When i select an option in the first drop down box, it populates the second with all the values in the table, not just the selected ones.
Cheers
