Hi Cohen, It´s really trivial. You show put a block that tests if a student is selected, like <? if (strlen($_REQUEST["student_id"])>0) { ?> DO SOME STUFF <SCRIPT> /* And add this simple feature to select the student passed as parameter */ /* Assuming that the select is inside a form named 'f' */ function selectOption(selectName, value) { var s = document.f.elements[selectName]; var found = false; for (var i=0; i<s.options.length && !found; i++) { if (s.options[i].value==value) { s.selectedIndex=i; found = true; } } } selectOption('student_id',<?=$_REQUEST["student_id"]?>); </SCRIPT> <? } ?> ----- Original Message ----- From: "G. Cohen" <gilac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <php-db@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 1:30 PM Subject: php, javascript and db - your help is needed > Hello, > > I have a HTML form with 2 select boxes, lets say students and courses. When > the from loads for the first time, I fill the students select box with data > from database. The courses selectbox remains empty. > When the user selects a value from the students selectbox (onchange event), > I should go to the db to reterive the courses for the selected student and > fill the courses selectbaox. I found it very complicated to do the > interaction between javascript and php: apparently, I have to submit the > from for the selected student id to be passed as a parameter to php (so that > php can access the db with the student id and retrieve his courses), and at > the same time I want the form to stay with the list of students, and the > selected student. This should not be that hard, should it?! this is > something trivial, I hope? > I also tried using cookies, with no success. > If someone knows how to do that, please let me know. > > Best Regards, > G. Cohen > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php