PHP - Getting Value & Text From A Dropdown

Hi,
I have a dropdown box, and I want it so that if dropdownbox.value='selected:' then show error message.
The checkbox is dynamically populated.

Pleaee Advise,
- stuart

I'm trying to have it shows the data from my array as each option will have a value of the user's id and the text for the option will be their name. As of right now it only shows the last person.


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<?php echo form_label('Recipient', 'recipient'); ?>

<?php 
$data = array(
  'name'   => 'to',
  'class'  => 'required'
);
<?php echo form_label('Recipient', 'recipient'); ?>
                                    <?php 
                                    $data = array(
                                    'name'   => 'to',
                                    'class'  => 'required'
                                    );
                                    $options = array();
foreach($users AS $user)
{
    $options = array (
    $user->user_id => $user->first_name.' '.$user->last_name
    );     
}   
?>

<?php echo form_dropdown($data, $options); ?>

Hi all. I kinda need some from a more advanced PHP expert. I have a table that displays time slots that are available to be booked. As you can see I have a table with two columns, The 1st column displays the times and the 2nd column has a link that says 'Available'. I want to be able to put all this in a select dropdown box to save space, but how can I do this?

<?php 
	
	$doc = JFactory::getDocument();
	$doc->addStyleSheet(JURI::root(false)."components/com_pbbooking/user_view.css");
?>

<style>
table#pbbooking td, table#pbbooking th {padding: 0em;}
</style>


<h1><?php echo JText::_('COM_PBBOOKING_DAY_VIEW_HEADING').' '.Jhtml::_('date',$this->dateparam->format(DATE_ATOM),JText::_('COM_PBBOOKING_DAY_VIEW_DATE_FORMAT'));?></h1>
<table id="pbbooking">
<!-- Draw header row showing calendars across the top....-->
	<tr>
		<th></th> <!-- first column left blank to display time slots -->
		<?php foreach ($this->cals as $cal) :?>
			<th><?php echo $cal->name;?></th>
		<?php endforeach;?>
	</tr>


	<!-- draw table data rows -->

	<?php while ($this->day_dt_start <= $this->dt_last_slot) :?>
		<?php $slot_end = date_create($this->day_dt_start->format(DATE_ATOM),new DateTimezone(PBBOOKING_TIMEZONE));?>
		<?php $slot_end->modify('+ '.$this->config->time_increment.' minutes');?>
		<tr>
			<th><?php echo Jhtml::_('date',$this->day_dt_start->format(DATE_ATOM),JText::_('COM_PBBOOKING_SUCCESS_TIME_FORMAT'));?></th>
			<?php foreach ($this->cals as $cal) :?>
				<td class="pbbooking-<?php echo (!$cal->is_free_from_to($this->day_dt_start,$slot_end)) ? 'free' : 'busy';?>-cell">
					<?php if ($this->day_dt_start>date_create("now",new DateTimeZone(PBBOOKING_TIMEZONE)) && !$cal->is_free_from_to($this->day_dt_start,$slot_end)) :?>
						<a href="<?php echo JRoute::_('index.php?option=com_pbbooking&task=create&dtstart='.$this->day_dt_start->format('YmdHi').'&cal_id='.$cal->cal_id);?>">
							<?php echo (!$cal->is_free_from_to($this->day_dt_start,$slot_end)) ? JText::_('COM_PBBOOKING_FREE') : JText::_('COM_PBBOOKING_BUSY');?>
						</a>
					<?php else :?>
						<?php echo JText::_('COM_PBBOOKING_BUSY');?>
					<?php endif;?>
				</td>
			<?php endforeach;?>
		</tr>
		<?php $this->day_dt_start->modify('+ '.$this->config->time_increment.' minutes');?>
	<?php endwhile;?>

	<!-- end draw table data rows-->

</table>

I currently have a web page which the user selects the value from the drop menu.
I then want that value to go into another form in the same page inside a hidden field.
Which will then be submitted to the processing php.

The second option is the user selects the drop menu  then the processing php would have to grab
the value without a submit button because I am using a save button on the same page in the
other form.

Any help

Hi i have this edit form that allows user to mofy data but the problems on the text box is that it deletes the rest of the data after the space from the first word i tried to increase the size of the varChars on mysql but did no work why it happens how can i stop from happening??

this the form input
<input type="text" name="name" id="name"  class='text_box' value="<?php echo $_GET['name'];?>"/>

Hello all , here is another problem of my project.

I need to create a textarea , drop down list and submit button .

At first , I can type whatever I want in the textarea , but for certain part I can just choose the word I want from drop down list and click submit , then the word will appear in the textarea as my next word .

But I have no idea how to make this works , is there any simple example for this function ?
Thanks for any help provided .

I'd like to use a text editor like this one: http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/examples/full.php for my forums.


But I am not sure exactly how I would prevent abuse and injects to messed up the page, rather than being contained in  the designated area it is meant for.


Could some   one please help me, I know htmlspecailchars will not work, since some of the code needs to render as html 

Okay I am trying to list out years in a dropdown box. It should show say how many years old. I want to start from 16 though and stop at 100. So the year has to be 1995 for 16 but then I would have to change the code every year. so I was wondering how do I modify this code to do what I explained?
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<?php
 $start_year = ($start_year) ? $start_year - 1 : date('Y') - 100;
    $end_year = ($end_year) ? $end_year : date('Y');
for ($i = $end_year; $i > $start_year; $i -= 1) {

$date=date(Y);
$age = $i - $date;

        echo '<option value="'.$i.'">'.$age.'</option>';
    }
?>

Thanks in advanced

Hi,

I need to develop a code that allows me to choose how I want to see a list of data from the database.

For example, I could choose to see "the most recent first" or "most recent last".

I have this example on how work the "onChange" event:


<html>
<head>
<title>Select Example</title>
<script>
function onSelectChange(){
var dropdown = document.getElementById("developer");
var index = dropdown.selectedIndex;
var ddVal = dropdown.options[index].value;
var ddText = dropdown.options[index].text;

if(ddVal != 0) {
output = "You Selected " + ddText;
}

document.getElementById("output").innerHTML = output;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>

<h3>Developers</h3>
<select id="developer" onChange="onSelectChange();">
<option value="0">the most recent first</option>
<option value="1">the most recent flast</option>
</select>

<br /

<div id="output"></div>
</body>
</html>


Now I need to apply this to a SELECT from the database that will use this method to list data. I have tried to google it, but I can't find any example.

Can someone give me a clue on how to find the way of doing this?

Best Regards,

I am currently learning Zend/PHP on the fly. I've gone from 0 to 40 in about 2 months, as far as savviness is concerned. I am working on a form that I want to display array information of two things (shortname and fullname) in a drop-down list. I am thinking I need to do some sort of concatenation to achieve this, or would I do an array within an array? The array is defined in a value object and that draws the id, shortname and fullname. Shortname is the defined label in that file. In the form page, i have the LO ['full_name'] => LO ['label']... this inputs the right information into the database, but shows the full name. I want the drop-down to show it as following: Shortname|Fullname. This will be used in a couple of places once I get on the right track on how to accomplish this. I would be accepting of any help, as well as any resourced that could answer my question and help me finish this form.
 

Cheers,
ESK

Hi,

I am trying to call the data from Mysql but I am getting an empty drop down list, this is the code:


mysql:

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create table years
(  yearID integer auto_increment,
   year varchar(30),
   primary key (yearID)
);

insert into years (yearID, year) values ('1', '2007-2008');
insert into years (yearID, year) values ('2', '2008-2009');
insert into years (yearID, year) values ('3', '2009-2010');
insert into years (yearID, year) values ('4', '2010-2011');
insert into years (yearID, year) values ('5', '2011-2012');
insert into years (yearID, year) values ('6', '2012-2013');

PHP:

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<?php require_once('../Connections/connection.php'); ?>
<?php
 
$result = @mysql_query( "select yearID, year, from sss.years");

print "<p>Select a year:\n";
print "<select name=\"yearID\">\n";
while ($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($result)){
$yearID = $row[ 'yearID' ];
$year = $row[ 'year' ];
print "<option value=$yearID>$year\n";
}
print "</select>\n";
print "</p>\n";
?>

Thank you!

Hi i have a online/offline script that works great no issues at all. In order to change the html, php file to display when offline I need to point it to that file via input field. What i would like is to change the input filed and have a dropdown that list all the folders and subfolders within the the directory where all the templates are located. I have found a php snippet on the forum that does exactly what i want. The issue is now is to remove the input filed in the script and insert the snippet found here and thats where the issue comes. I'm hoping some guru here can easily help me out . please see below for the code

online/offline code ( input filed i would like to replace with dropdown selector <input type="text" name="txttemplate" value="%s" id="txttemplate" />)
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<?php 
session_start();
$page_offline  = TRUE;
$page_offline_title  = " ";
$page_offline_message  = " Offline";
$admin_ip = "1.1.1.1";
$admin_password = "*****************";
$page_offline_template  = "template/path/index.php";
$page_offline_foradmin = TRUE;
ini_set("display_errors", "0");
error_reporting(E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR);
$page = strstr($_SERVER['PHP_SELF'], "off.php") ? "admin" : "website";

// Try login
$login_error = FALSE;
if(isset($_POST['txtpassword'])){
if(md5($_POST['txtpassword']) == $admin_password){
$_SESSION['offline_admin'] = TRUE;
}else{
$login_error = TRUE;
}
}

// Save config settings
$offline  = $page_offline ? 'checked="checked"' : "";
$title  = $page_offline_title;
$message  = $page_offline_message;
$saved  = FALSE;
$template = $page_offline_template;
$adminoffline  = $page_offline_foradmin ? 'checked="checked"' : "";

if(isset($_POST['btnsave']) && $_SESSION['offline_admin']){
$val_offline  = isset($_POST['chkoffline']) && ($_POST['chkoffline'] == "true") ? TRUE : FALSE;
$val_title  = htmlspecialchars($_POST['txttitle']);
$val_message  = htmlspecialchars($_POST['txtmessage']);
$val_template  = htmlspecialchars($_POST['txttemplate']);
$val_password  = htmlspecialchars($_POST['txtpassword']);
$val_adminoffline  = isset($_POST['chkconstruct']) && ($_POST['chkconstruct'] == "true") ? TRUE : FALSE;

$offline  = $val_offline ? 'checked="checked"' : "";
$title  = $val_title;
$message  = $val_message;
$template = $val_template;
$adminoffline  = $val_adminoffline ? 'checked="checked"' : "";

if(empty($val_password)){
page_offline_save($val_offline, $val_title, $val_message, $val_template, $adminoffline);
}else{
page_offline_save($val_offline, $val_title, $val_message, $val_template, $adminoffline, $val_password);
}

$saved = TRUE;
}

// Templates
$admin_style_tpl = <<<ADMINSTYLETPL
body{
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:11px; 
text-align: center;
background-color:#F9F9F9;
color:#555555;
}
#wrapper{
width:400px;
padding:20px;
margin: 0 auto;
border:1px solid #DADADA;
background-color: #FFF;
text-align: left;
}
h2{
margin: 0px 0px 10px 0px;
padding: 0px;
font-size: 24px;
color:#464646;
font-family:Georgia,"Times New Roman",Times,serif;
font-style: italic;
font-weight: normal;
}
label{
display: block;
width: 150px;
font-weight: bold;
padding: 14px 0px 3px 0px;
}
input{
-moz-border-radius-bottomleft:3px;
-moz-border-radius-bottomright:3px;
-moz-border-radius-topleft:3px;
-moz-border-radius-topright:3px;
width: 300px;
background:#F5F5F5 none repeat scroll 0 0;
border:1px solid #CCCCCC;
color:#666666;
padding: 4px 8px;
}
#chkoffline, #chkconstruct{
width: 20px;
}
.error{
border: solid 1px #CC0000;
}

ADMINSTYLETPL;

$admin_login_tpl = <<<ADMINLOGINTEMPLATE
<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Login</title>
<style>
%s
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<h2>Login</h2>
<form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="">
<label for="txtpassword">Password</label>
   <input type="password" name="txtpassword" %s id="txtpassword" /><br /><br />
   <input name="btnlogin" type="submit" value="Login" />
   </form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

ADMINLOGINTEMPLATE;

$admin_config_tpl = <<<ADMINCONFIGTEMPLATE
<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title></title>
<style>
%s
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<h2></h2>
<form id="frmadmin" name="frmadmin" method="post" action="">
    <label for="chkoffline">Offline</label>
    <input name="chkoffline" id="chkoffline" %s type="checkbox" value="true" />
<label for="chkconstruct">Show offline to admin</label>
    <input name="chkconstruct" id="chkconstruct" %s type="checkbox" value="true" />
<label for="txttitle">Title</label>
   <input type="text" name="txttitle" value="%s" id="txttitle" />
        <label for="txtmessage">Message</label>
   <input type="text" name="txtmessage" value="%s" id="txtmessage" />
<label for="txttemplate">Template</label>
   <input type="text" name="txttemplate" value="%s" id="txttemplate" />
        <label for="txtpassword">Admin password</label>
   <input type="password" name="txtpassword" id="txtpassword" />
   <br /> Leave this field empty if you don't want to change the admin password.
<br /><br />
   <input name="btnsave" type="submit" value="Save" />
   </form>
</div>
</body>
</html>

ADMINCONFIGTEMPLATE;

$admin_saved_tpl = <<<ADMINSAVEDTEMPLATE
<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Offline Admin</title>
<style>
%s
</style>
</head>

<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<h2>Configuration saved</h2>
The configuration is saved succesfully. You can continue to <a href="off.php">config</a> or go to your <a href="../">Homepage</a> or back to <a href="index.php">admin panel</a>.
</div>
</body>
</html>

ADMINSAVEDTEMPLATE;

if($page == "admin"){

// If user not is loggedin then show login screen
if(!isset($_SESSION['offline_admin']) || !$_SESSION['offline_admin']){
echo sprintf($admin_login_tpl, $admin_style_tpl, ($login_error) ? 'class="error"' : '');
}else{
if(!$saved){
echo sprintf($admin_config_tpl, $admin_style_tpl, $offline, $adminoffline, $title, $message, $template);
}else{
echo sprintf($admin_saved_tpl, $admin_style_tpl);
}
}
exit();

}else{

if($page_offline && (($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] != $admin_ip) || $page_offline_foradmin)){

ob_start();
include($page_offline_template);
$template = ob_get_contents();
ob_end_clean();

// Replace variables
$template = str_replace(array("{TITLE}", "{MESSAGE}"), array($page_offline_title, $page_offline_message), $template);

// Show template
echo $template;
exit();
}

}

// Write settings to file
function page_offline_save($offline, $title, $message, $template, $adminoffline, $password=""){
$lines = explode("\n", file_get_contents("offline.php"));

// Set configuration
$offline_state = ($offline) ? "TRUE" : "FALSE";
$lines[2] = '$page_offline  = ' . $offline_state . ';';
$lines[3] = '$page_offline_title  = "' . $title . '";';
$lines[4] = '$page_offline_message  = "' . $message . '";';
$lines[5] = '$admin_ip = "' . $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] . '";';
$lines[7] = '$page_offline_template  = "' . $template . '";';
$adminoffline_state = ($adminoffline) ? "TRUE" : "FALSE";
$lines[8] = '$page_offline_foradmin = ' . $adminoffline_state . ';';
if(!empty($password)){
$lines[6] = '$admin_password = "' . md5($password) . '";';
}

// Save to file
file_put_contents("off.php", implode("\n", $lines));
}
?>

snippet found here on the forum
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<?php 

$parent_directory = 'path/to/directory';
$file_types = 'html,htm,php,etc';

//===================================================//
// FUNCTION: directoryToArray                        //
//                                                   //
// Parameters:                                       //
//  - $root: The directory to process                //
//  - $to_return: f=files, d=directories, b=both     //
//  - $file_types: the extensions of file types to   //
//                 to return if files selected       //
//===================================================//
function directoryToArray($root, $to_return='b', $file_types=false) {
  $array_items = array();
  if ($file_types) { $file_types=explode(',',$file_types); }
  if ($handle = opendir($root)) {
    while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) {
      if ($file != "." && $file != "..") {

        $add_item = false;
        $type = (is_dir($root. "/" . $file))?'d':'f';
        $name = preg_replace("/\/\//si", "/", $file);

        if ($type=='d' && ($to_return=='b' || $to_return=='d') ) {
          $add_item = true;
        }

        if ($type=='f' && ($to_return=='b' || $to_return=='f') ) {
          $ext = end(explode('.',$name));
          if ( !$file_types || in_array($ext, $file_types) ) {
            $add_item = true;
          }
        }

        if ($add_item) {
          $array_items[] = array ( 'name'=>$name, 'type'=>$type, 'root'=>$root);
        }
      }
    } // End While
    closedir($handle);
  } // End If
  return $array_items;
}



if (isset($_POST[pickfile])) {

  // User has selected a file take whatever action you want based
  // upon the values for folder and file

} else {

    echo '
<html>
<head>
  <script type="text/javascript">
    function changeFolder(folder) {
      document.pickFile.submit();
    }
  </script>
</head>

<body>';


echo "<form name=\"pickFile\" method=\"POST\">\n";

$directoryList = directoryToArray($parent_directory,'d');

echo "<select name=\"folder\" onchange=\"changeFolder(this.value);\">\n";
foreach ($directoryList as $folder) {
  $selected = ($_POST[folder]==$folder[name])? 'selected' : '';
  echo "<option value=\"$folder[name]\" $selected>$folder[name]</option>\n"; 
}
echo '</select><br><br>';

$working_folder = ($_POST[folder]) ? $_POST[folder] : $directoryList[0][name];

$fileList = directoryToArray($parent_directory.'/'.$working_folder,'f',$file_types);

echo "<select name=\"file\">\n";
foreach ($fileList as $file) {
  echo "<option value=\"$file[name]\">$file[name]</option>\n"; 
}
echo '</select><br><br>';

echo "<button type=\"submit\" name=\"pickfile\">Submit</button>\n";

echo "</form>\n";
echo "</body>\n";
echo "</html>\n";

}
?>
Thank you in advance for any help...

Hi,

I'm having a tough time combining two separate pieces of code. To summarise, I have an entire folder hierachy which I want to access via a group of dropdown boxes, so there is a box for months, a box for the dates and a box for the year. The code I have found on the internet (and slightly modified with the dates etc.) is this:

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<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

function jumpTo(url)

{

  document.location.href=url;
 
}

</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var categories = [];
categories["startList"] = ["January","February","March","April","May","June","July","August","September","October","November","December"]

categories["January"] = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24","25","26","27","28","29","30","31"];
categories["February"] = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24","25","26","27","28","29"];
categories["March"] = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24","25","26","27","28","29","30","31"];
categories["April"] = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24","25","26","27","28","29","30"];
categories["May"] = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24","25","26","27","28","29","30","31"];
categories["June"] = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24","25","26","27","28","29","30"];
categories["July"] = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24","25","26","27","28","29","30","31"];
categories["August"] = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24","25","26","27","28","29","30","31"];
categories["September"] = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24","25","26","27","28","29","30"];
categories["October"] = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24","25","26","27","28","29","30","31"];
categories["November"] = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24","25","26","27","28","29","30"];
categories["December"] = ["1","2","3","4","5","6","7","8","9","10","11","12","13","14","15","16","17","18","19","20","21","22","23","24","25","26","27","28","29","30","31"];

categories["1"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["2"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["3"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["4"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["5"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["6"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["7"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["8"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["9"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["10"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["11"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["12"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["13"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["14"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["15"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["16"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["17"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["18"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["19"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["20"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["21"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["22"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["23"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["24"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["25"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["26"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["27"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["28"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["29"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["30"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];
categories["31"] = ["2008","2009","2010","2011"];

var nLists = 3; // number of select lists in the set

function fillSelect(currCat,currList){
var step = Number(currList.name.replace(/\D/g,""));
for (i=step; i<nLists+1; i++) {
document.forms['tripleplay']['List'+i].length = 1;
document.forms['tripleplay']['List'+i].selectedIndex = 0;
}
var nCat = categories[currCat];
for (each in nCat) {
var nOption = document.createElement('option');
var nData = document.createTextNode(nCat[each]);
nOption.setAttribute('value',nCat[each]);
nOption.appendChild(nData);
currList.appendChild(nOption);
}
}

function getValue(L3, L2, L1) {
alert("Your selection was:- \n" + L1 + "\n" + L2 + "\n" + L3);
}

function init() {
fillSelect('startList',document.forms['tripleplay']['List1'])
}

navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer" ? attachEvent('onload', init, false) : addEventListener('load', init, false);

</script>
</head>
<body>

<form name="tripleplay" action="">
<select name='List1' onchange="fillSelect(this.value,this.form['List2'])">
<option selected>Make a selection</option>
</select>
&nbsp;
<select name='List2' onchange="fillSelect(this.value,this.form['List3'])">
<option selected>Make a selection</option>
</select>
&nbsp;
<select name='List3' onchange="getValue(this.value, this.form['List2'].value,
this.form['List1'].value)">
<option selected >Make a selection</option>
</select>
</form>
</body>
</html>

Then I have some code that displays a folder's contents on screen:

Code: [Select]
<?php
($_POST['tripleplay'])  { 
 
    
     $link  = "../marketing/2011\February\20";

    if (file_exists($link)) 
    
    {
        if ($handle = opendir($link))

{ 
    
     while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle)))
    
     {  
       
        if ($file != "." && $file != "..")
       
        {  
            if(!preg_match("/\.pdf$/", $file)) continue;
           
            {
           
            echo "<a href=\"".$link."/".$file."\">".$file."</a><br>";  
        
         }
        
         }  
        
         }
        
echo "<br>"; 
    
     closedir($handle);  

}



    }
    break;
?>

Basically I need for the results of the dropdown boxes to help select the folder. So for the above example, if the dropdown says February 20, 2011, it would display that folders contents. I'm sorry that this is such a mess, but I would be grateful for any help you can give  :shy:

Hi Guys,
I've been pulling my hair out regarding this peoblem. Hope you can help.

On my webpage I have 4 html dropdowns and 2 html textboxs.

What I need to do is populate the 2nd dropdown from the results of the first, populate the 3rd dropdown from the results of the 2nd and finally populate the 2 textboxs from the results of the 4th dropdown.
So far I have been using the $_POST variable to send back to some PHP functions to populate the dropdowns.
To make the dropdowns remember the last selection i've been using 'echo $_POST[' ']' just to show what the user choose before.

My question is; is there a more simple way of doing this because its getting pretty messy.
I've been looking at AJAX but i really dont wanna go there just yet.

Hope you help
TIM

Hi all, I was wondering if someone knows a clean way to make a dropdown menu using just php and html with the following functionality. If someone selects a value from the dropdown options it should be visible on refresh.
So in case a have a dropdown menu with: oranges, apples, grapes and someone selects grapes and submits it, grapes should be selected.

I have made someonthing but it looks redundant. I think there should be something with a foreach loop or something but i can't figure it out yet.

Thanks in advance,
cheers!!