hi, I am a new bie to this concept of AJAX....but the demo trial with a select element went fine. What i tried? I created a html file and a drop down menu.based on the option the the information is displayed to the right of menu. What i want is to instead of informatin it should be printing html forms but I am not able to make it work.... Please anybody help me...as I am pasting the demo codes here..... ********************************************** *.php file ****************************** <?php /* You should implement error checking, but for simplicity, we avoid it here */ if($_GET['action'] == 'get_products'){ /* We're here to get the product listing... You can obviously change this file to include many different actions based on the request. */ switch($_GET['id']){ /* We had the following in our list. 0 Grades 1 Discipline 2 Period 3 Equipments The integer value on the left is the value corresponding to the javascript selectedIndex property.*/ case 0: // Audio Programs /* Print HTML to fill the product_cage <div> Any output to the browser will be retrieved in the XMLHttpRequest object's responseText property */ $result = $GLOBALS['db']->execQuery("select bottom_grade,top_grade from grades"); $topSelect = "<select name='top_grade'>"; $bottomSelect = "<Select name='bottom_grade'>"; for($h=1;$h<=12;$h++){ $topSelect.="<option value='".$h."'"; $bottomSelect.="<option value='".$h."'"; if(mysql_result($result,0,"top_grade")==$h) $topSelect.=" selected "; if(mysql_result($result,0,"bottom_grade")==$h) $bottomSelect.=" selected "; $topSelect.=">".$h."</option>"; $bottomSelect.=">".$h."</option>"; } $topSelect .= "</select>"; $bottomSelect .= "</select>"; echo ' <form action="index.php?a=setup&g=1" method="post"> <table align="center"> <tr> <td align="right"> </td><td><strong>Enter grade span:</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right">lowest grade:</td><td>'.$bottomSelect.'</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right">highest grade:</td><td>'.$topSelect.'</td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> </td><td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"></td> </tr> </table> </form> </td>'; break; case 1: //Games echo ' <td><img src="icon_singlepx.gif" width="10" height="1" alt=""></td> <td valign="top"> <form action="index.php?a=setup&d=1" method="post"> <table align="center"> <tr> <td align="right"> </td><td><strong>Add Discipline Area:</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right">Name:</td><td><input type="text" name="discipline"></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right"> </td><td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"></td> </tr> </table> </form> </td>'; break; case 2: //Internet echo ' <td><img src="icon_singlepx.gif" width="10" height="1" alt=""></td> <td valign="top"> <form action="index.php?a=setup" method="post"> <table align="center"> <tr> <td align="right"> </td><td><strong>Add period:</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td align="right">name:</td><td><input type="text" name="name"></td> </tr>'); $page->datebox(0,0,0,"bd","bm","by",$datass['year'],($datass['year'] +8),1,"begins on:"); $page->datebox(0,0,0,"ed","em","ey",$datass['year'],($datass['year'] +8),1,"ends on:"); echo(' <tr> <td align="right"> </td><td><input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit"></td> </tr> </table> </form> </td>'; break; case 3: echo ' hi '); break; default: echo '<b>You didn\'t select an item from above!</b>'; break; } } ?> ******************************** html file below ************ <div id="product_categories"> <!--category selection Box--> <form name="form_category_select"> <select name="select_category_select" onChange="getProducts();"> <option> Grade </option> <option> Discipline </option> <option> Period </option> <option> Equipments </option> </select> </form> </div> <div id="product_cage"> <!-- This is where we will be displaying the products once they are loaded--> Pl ease select from right <table align="center"><tr> <td valign="top"> </div> *************************************** js file *************************************** /* The following function creates an XMLHttpRequest object... */ function createRequestObject(){ var request_o; //declare the variable to hold the object. var browser = navigator.appName; //find the browser name if(browser == "Microsoft Internet Explorer"){ /* Create the object using MSIE's method */ request_o = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP"); }else{ /* Create the object using other browser's method */ request_o = new XMLHttpRequest(); } return request_o; //return the object } /* You can get more specific with version information by using parseInt(navigator.appVersion) Which will extract an integer value containing the version of the browser being used. */ /* The variable http will hold our new XMLHttpRequest object. */ var http = createRequestObject(); /* Function called to get the product categories list */ function getProducts(){ /* Create the request. The first argument to the open function is the method (POST/GET), and the second argument is the url... document contains references to all items on the page We can reference document.form_category_select.select_category_select and we will be referencing the dropdown list. The selectedIndex property will give us the index of the selected item. */ http.open('get', 'internal_request.php?action=get_products&id=' + document.form_category_select.select_category_select.selectedIndex); /* Define a function to call once a response has been received. This will be our handleProductCategories function that we define below. */ http.onreadystatechange = handleProducts; /* Send the data. We use something other than null when we are sending using the POST method. */ http.send(null); } /* Function called to handle the list that was returned from the internal_request.php file.. */ function handleProducts(){ /* Make sure that the transaction has finished. The XMLHttpRequest object has a property called readyState with several states: 0: Uninitialized 1: Loading 2: Loaded 3: Interactive 4: Finished */ if(http.readyState == 4){ //Finished loading the response /* We have got the response from the server-side script, let's see just what it was. using the responseText property of the XMLHttpRequest object. */ var response = http.responseXML; /* And now we want to change the product_categories <div> content. we do this using an ability to get/change the content of a page element that we can find: innerHTML. */ document.getElementById('product_cage').innerHTML = response; } ******************************************** please someody tell me more about this . thanking in advance Harish Balakrishnana Marar PHP Data object relational mapping generator - http://www.meta-language.net/ Yahoo! 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