How to use pull down with form action ?

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June 9th, 2004, 02:36 AM

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How to use pull down with form action ?

form action generally works with submit buttons. I have made a select pull down list and I want to use the changed status of the pull down to activate (a form?) to call search.php with the new selected item being passed to the search.php. I can take it from there and build the select list and build the html table for display.

Give code snipptets if possible or URL refs.

June 9th, 2004, 02:15 PM

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Tiny progress on activating page with pull down.

While 14 of you read and did not reply with any hints, I futzed around until I got a partial answer. I have code in left frame with pull down and "GO" submit button. When I select an item in pull down and click "GO", BOTH left and right pages are changed. The left changes to a 404 error. The right plays the search.php page.

What am I doing wrong ? Segment from manage.php [manage.php is being overwritten with a 404 error.]

<b>Search Sanity Savers</b>

<form method="post" ACTION="search.php" target="right" >
<select name="aid" size="1">
<?php>
$skills = @mysql_query('SELECT AID, SKILLDESC FROM skills');
if (!$skills) {
die('<p>Error retrieving skills from database!<br />'.
'Error: ' . mysql_error() . '</p>');
}
while ($skill = mysql_fetch_array($skills)) {
$aid = $skill['AID'];
$skdesc = $skill['SKILLDESC'];
echo("<option value='$aid'>$skdesc</option>\n");
}
?>
</select><br />
<input type="submit" name="go" value="GO"
onClick="location = this.form.aid.options[this.form.aid.selectedIndex].value;">
</form>

June 14th, 2004, 08:14 AM

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Well, after many days of struggling, I have answered my own quesiton.

I finally found out how to do it myself. It is by using <form> and the onclick=submit() funciton. Make up a search.php, it there is no right frame it opens a new window.
<pre>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<?php
if (isset($_POST['aid'])):
echo('value is here ' . $_POST['aid']);
else:
echo(' Choose your poisen! ');
endif; ?>

<form method="post" ACTION="search.php" target="right">
<select name="aid" size="1" onchange="submit()" >
<option value='12'>Option one</option>
<option value='13'>Option two</option>
<option value='14'>Option three</option>
<option value='15'>Option four</option>
<option value='16'>Option five</option>
<option value='17'>Option six</option>
</select><br />
</form>
</body>
</html>
</pre>

Sorry, I tried to format this nicely but system ate the leading spaces. I even added less than pre greater than thingy but still no dice.

June 16th, 2004, 09:38 AM

shamrog12

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Try this

This should change the right frame to whatever the value of the dropdown is. The dropdown values would have to have the value of a web page such as search.php

Code:

<b>Search Sanity Savers</b>
    <!-- Begin processing the SELECT now. -->
       <form method="post" ACTION="javascript:;" target="right" >
          <select name="aid" size="1">
          <?php>
             $skills = @mysql_query('SELECT AID, SKILLDESC FROM skills');
             if (!$skills) {
                die('<p>Error retrieving skills from database!<br />'.
                'Error: ' . mysql_error() . '</p>');
             }
             while ($skill = mysql_fetch_array($skills)) {
                $aid   = $skill['AID'];
                $skdesc   = $skill['SKILLDESC'];
                echo("<option value='$aid'>$skdesc</option>\n");
             }
          ?>
          </select><br />
          <input type="submit" name="go" value="GO" 
          onClick="location = this.form.aid.options[this.form.aid.selectedIndex].value;">
       </form>

Since I don't know what your option tag values look like that's the best I can do. If you want to post your option tags or an example then go for it and we'll see if my suggestion applies still.

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