| Re: form & lookup columns [message #172363 is a reply to message #172362] |
Mon, 14 February 2011 11:05   |
The Natural Philosoph
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richard wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Feb 2011 01:55:42 -0800 (PST), Wolf wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> I've got a database with these tables:
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>> Region (id, name)
>> Province (id, id_region, name, shortname)
>> Town (id, id_province, name)
>> Shop (id, id_town, name...)
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>> I've made a form and I'd like that when I choose a region, in the next
>> drop-down menu I want to show provinces of that region
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>> I've searched the web to study how to do this thing, but I haven't
>> found anything: could you please give me some hints/ideas/links to
>> tutorials?
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>> Thanks a lot
>>
>> Best regards
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> chained select.
> I've seen plenty of examples of multiple chained selects using javascript,
> dhtml, ajax and others.
> What is selected in form 1 dictates what loads into form 2.
But this does require javascript.
I can't think of any way of doing it without.
And then the accessibility brigade will be all over the site complaining
it wont work with Lynx or something.
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