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PHP MySQL, Select Data from dropdown menu an populate other fields

Asked by karl_0090 in PHP Scripting Language, MySQL Server, PHP for Windows

Tags: PHP, MySQL

Hello,

I have a dropdown menu / list that gets data from a MySQL database.

When a user selects the data from the dropdown menu I would like the data that corresponds with that data to be populated into a number of fields in the form.

Here is a example of an attempted solution I found, but it dose not work, something like this would be ideal.

Many Thanks
Karl

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             <html>
<head>
<title>DropDown</title>
</head>
 
<body>
<form name="events" method="post"  action="<?= $_SERVER['PHP_SELF']?>">
<table>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>
      <?php 
	// open connection to MySQL server
	$connection = mysql_connect('localhost', 'root', 'pass')
	or die ('Unable to connect!');
					
	//select database
	mysql_select_db('database') or die ('Unable to select database!');
					
	//create and execute query
	$query = 'SELECT company FROM man_contacts ORDER BY company';
	$result = mysql_query($query) or die ('Error in query: $query. ' . mysql_error());
					
	//create selection list
	echo "<select name='Company'>\n";
					
	while($row = mysql_fetch_row($result))
	{
		$heading = $row[0];
		echo "<option value='$heading'>$heading\n";
	}
	echo "</select>"
	
      ?>
     
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="right" valign="top"><p>First Name:</p></td>
    <td>
      <input type="text" name="first" id="first" class="heading" value="<?php echo $heading['first']; ?>">
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="right" valign="top"><p>Email:</p></td>
    <td>
      <input type="text" name="email" id="email" class="date"value="<?php echo $heading['email']; ?>">
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="right" valign="top"><p>Company:</p></td>
    <td>
      <textarea name="company" id="company" class="details"value="<?php echo $heading['company']; ?>"></textarea>
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>&nbsp;</td>
    <td>
      <input name="submit" type="submit" class="submitForm" value="Submit">
    </td>
  </tr>
</table>
</form>
</body>
</html>

           
         

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PHP MySQL, Select Data from dropdown menu an populate other fields

Asked by karl_0090 in PHP Scripting Language, MySQL Server, PHP for Windows

Tags: PHP, MySQL

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