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From: Mtek on 5 May 2008 11:42
Hi,

We have a combo box on our page, which gets populated via a MySQL
Query in PHP.

What we want to do is to print the values on the page in a table that
correspond the to selection from the combo box without a page refresh.

I assume that I'll need to query ALL the needed values from the
database and store them in an array This can be done in PHP. Drawing
the combo box is not a problem. But, once a selection is made, how do
I print the values to the page?

I'm assuming an 'on change' events needs to be attached to the box,
but, it is not a form, so, there would not be any submit to the
server. How do we print the values from the selection made? Would it
have to be javascript rather than PHP, or a function that is called?

The HTML table is within a DIV. Someone suggested using innerHTML.
But I cannot see how to re-display the entire DIV, with new values
from the combobox selection, without refreshing the page......this
seems impossible.

John.
From: Ugo on 5 May 2008 12:10
[cut]
> But, once a selection is made, how do
> I print the values to the page?

I'm not sure to understand your request, howover I write 2 code rows that
could be a start code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript">
window.onload = function()
{
document.forms[0].b.onclick = function()
{
var form = this.form;
form.t.value = '';
for( var i = 0, max = form.s.options.length; i < max; ++i )
if( form.s.options[i].selected )
form.t.value += form.s.options[i].text + '\n';
}
}
</script>
</head>

<body>
<form>
<select name="s" multiple="multiple" size="4">
<option>opt1</option>
<option>opt2</option>
<option>opt3</option>
<option>opt4</option>
<option>opt5</option>
<option>opt6</option>
</select>

<textarea name="t" rows="4" cols="10"></textarea>
<br />
<input type="button" name="b" value="write" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
From: Mtek on 5 May 2008 12:16
On May 5, 11:10 am, Ugo <priv...(a)nospam.it> wrote:
> [cut]
>
> > But, once a selection is made, how do
> > I print the values to the page?
>
> I'm not sure to understand your request, howover I write 2 code rows that
> could be a start code:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
> "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
> <head>
> <title></title>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> window.onload = function()
> {
> document.forms[0].b.onclick = function()
> {
> var form = this.form;
> form.t.value = '';
> for( var i = 0, max = form.s.options.length; i < max; ++i )
> if( form.s.options[i].selected )
> form.t.value += form.s.options[i].text + '\n';
> }}
>
> </script>
> </head>
>
> <body>
> <form>
> <select name="s" multiple="multiple" size="4">
> <option>opt1</option>
> <option>opt2</option>
> <option>opt3</option>
> <option>opt4</option>
> <option>opt5</option>
> <option>opt6</option>
> </select>
>
> <textarea name="t" rows="4" cols="10"></textarea>
> <br />
> <input type="button" name="b" value="write" />
> </form>
> </body>
> </html>

Well, we have a large DIV in the middle of the page, which gets it's
values from a PHP select to a MySQL Database,

<? PHP CODE ?>
<combo box>
<div id="innertable>
..
..
..
like 20 lines of code
</div>

Basically, when the value in the combo box changes, I want to refresh
the DIV with the corresponding values from the database. They do not
want to refresh the page.

So, I figure that somehow I can use some external page to query the
new data and refresh the DIV......

Never used AJAX, so I'm going to avoid that. Any ideas? Can
innerHTML help me here?

Thanks!

John.
From: Ugo on 5 May 2008 12:30
> Well, we have a large DIV in the middle of the page, which gets it's
> values from a PHP select to a MySQL Database,
>
> <? PHP CODE ?>
> <combo box>
> <div id="innertable>
> .
> .
> .
> like 20 lines of code
> </div>
>
> Basically, when the value in the combo box changes, I want to refresh
> the DIV with the corresponding values from the database. They do not
> want to refresh the page.

ah ok,
I didn't understan before

> So, I figure that somehow I can use some external page to query the
> new data and refresh the DIV......
>
> Never used AJAX,

typically used for that

> so I'm going to avoid that. Any ideas? Can
> innerHTML help me here?

One idea, for avoiding ajax, can be:
to preload every "div" correspondent with every option of the select and to
insert hidden, after on onchange of the select you put visible the
corresponden

this solution works bad if there are a lot of the options and/or the text
correspondent is too much...
From: Mtek on 5 May 2008 12:35
On May 5, 11:30 am, Ugo <priv...(a)nospam.it> wrote:
> > Well, we have a large DIV in the middle of the page, which gets it's
> > values from a PHP select to a MySQL Database,
>
> > <? PHP CODE ?>
> > <combo box>
> > <div id="innertable>
> > .
> > .
> > .
> > like 20 lines of code
> > </div>
>
> > Basically, when the value in the combo box changes, I want to refresh
> > the DIV with the corresponding values from the database. They do not
> > want to refresh the page.
>
> ah ok,
> I didn't understan before
>
> > So, I figure that somehow I can use some external page to query the
> > new data and refresh the DIV......
>
> > Never used AJAX,
>
> typically used for that
>
> > so I'm going to avoid that. Any ideas? Can
> > innerHTML help me here?
>
> One idea, for avoiding ajax, can be:
> to preload every "div" correspondent with every option of the select and to
> insert hidden, after on onchange of the select you put visible the
> corresponden
>
> this solution works bad if there are a lot of the options and/or the text
> correspondent is too much...

I've read that you can include some PHP script as the new innerHTML,
or something like that. So, I'm trying to find an example where the
value selected from the combobox is passed to this simple PHP script,
which grabs the data from the database, and the DIV is
refreshed........

I've seen some simple examples where one line of text is changed, but
I'm talking about many lines. This is the content of my DIV now:

echo " <div class='innerb'>";
echo " <table class='tabletwo'>";
$select = mysql_query("SELECT row_id, name, address,
city, state, guests, seating, comments
FROM reservations
WHERE res_date =
STR_TO_DATE('$pdate','%m/%d/%Y')
ORDER BY row_id");
$x=0;
while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($select)) {
$x++;
echo " <tr>";
echo " <td class='td1' scope='row'>$x</td>";
echo " <td class='td2'>".$row['name']."</
td>";
echo " <td class='td3'>$address</td>";
echo " <td class='td4'>$city</td>";
echo " <td class='td5'>$state</td>";
echo " <td class='td6'>".$row['guests']."
Guests<br>".$row['seating']." in Section A <br>".$row['comments']."</
td>";
echo " </tr>";
}
echo " </table>";
echo "</div>";

So, the user selected the date ($pdate) from the combobox, it is used
to query the database, and the DIV is refreshed. I know this can be
done, but it is just a matter of finding the code or something
similar......

Thanks,

John
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