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9.3

Creat Multiple Dynamic Drop-down List in PHP/Javascript

Asked by ezgigurkan in JavaScript, PHP Scripting Language

I want to create a php page that does the following. It receives a string of characters and parses them to split them into separate words and lists them.
It then queries the database to see if these words already exist in some tables.
Next to each word, it creates a drop-down-list of values correspoding to the word in the database (for example, it would query 'Season' and populate the drop-down-list with 'Summer','Winter','Autumn', and 'Spring').
The words that don't have a corresposing value(s) in the database will not have a drop-down-list created for them.
I have created that already and it works fine ...(my code is below)
What I want to do next is the following: when the user clicks on any item of a drop-down-list, I want the php page to query the database for another set of values and list them in a new drop-down-list
(for example, if the user clicks on 'Summer', I want another drop-down-list to be created with the values June, July, August). I want the second drop-down-list to appear when the user clicks on the option.
There will obviously be sevaral second drop-down-lists correspoding to how many firs drop-down-lists were created by the first selection.
I have looked up some online code, but when trying them they didn't work. They all suggest using javascript.
I am new to all this php and javascript so your help is much appreciated. Thanks.
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<link href="mainCSS.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
      <form name="myform" method="post" action=""> 
      <table width="100%"  border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
      <tr class="maincss">
<?php
 
	$tagList = 'word1, word1, word3, word4, word5, word6'; //this is the input string to be parsed to several words
	
if (isset($tagList))
{
	// Step 1: parse the string
	$tags = array(); //array to store each tag
	
	if (is_int(strpos($tagList, ',')))
	{	
		$tags = explode(',', $tagList); // Multiple tags
	}
	else 
	{
		$tags[] = $tagList; // Just one tag
	}
	//Step 2: connect to the database to get the corresponding list of values
	$con = mysql_connect('localhost','username','pasword')
    				or die("CAN NOT CONNECT TO SERVER");
    $sel = mysql_select_db('database',$con)
    				or die("CAN NOT SELECT DATABASE");
					
	foreach ($tags as $index => $nextTag) 
	{
		$nextTag = ltrim(rtrim($nextTag));
    	print"<tr class=\"maincss\">";
     	print"<td>&nbsp;</td>";
     	print"<td height=\"15\" nowrap class=\"maincss\">Tag:</td>";
		print"<td nowrap class=\"maincss\">".$nextTag."</td>"; //prints each tag
		print"<td>&nbsp;</td>";
      	print"<td nowrap class=\"maincss\">";
     	 
		$q_select_count = mysql_query("SELECT int_resource_id, str_resource_name FROM `resources` where str_resource_name = '". $nextTag ."'");	
 
			$retunedMatchingTags = array();
			$indexRetunedMatchingTags = 0;
			while ($row = mysql_fetch_array($q_select_count)) 
			{
				$retunedMatchingTags[$indexRetunedMatchingTags][0] = $row["int_resource_id"]; 				
				$retunedMatchingTags[$indexRetunedMatchingTags][1] = $row["str_resource_name"]; 
				$indexRetunedMatchingTags = $indexRetunedMatchingTags + 1;
			}
			
			if ($indexRetunedMatchingTags > 0) //checks if there were corresponding words in the database
			{
				print"This word matched the following words in our database: ";
				print"<select onChange=\"resubmit()\">";
				foreach( $retunedMatchingTags as $returnedIDs => $returnedRow)
				{
					print "<option id=\"" . $retunedMatchingTags[$returnedIDs][0] . "\" name=\"" . $retunedMatchingTags[$returnedIDs][1] . "\" value =\"" . $retunedMatchingTags[$returnedIDs][1] . "\">". $returnedIDs.") ".$retunedMatchingTags[$returnedIDs][1]."</option>";
				}
				print "";
				print"</select>";
				
		    }
			else // no matching words were found
			{
				print "This word didn't match any other word in our database";
			}
		print "</td>";		
	 	
	}
	
	print"<td nowrap class=\"maincss\">";
	print "</td>";
 
 
	// here is where i want to add Step there and add a second drop-down-list corresponding to what was chosen
 
	print"</tr>";
 
 
	
mysql_close($con);
 
}
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