PHP Page Facebook Style Popup

The basically do the below. They have a hidden absolute positioned high z index div that has switches its display on when a button is clicked.

Now what they really do is much more complicated, such as:
 - They calculate the screen dimensions for the margins to get it on the center of the page
 - They use AJAX to dynamically grab content on the fly when a button is clicked instead of having just the text filled into the div on page load
 - etc

<div id="popupMsg" style="position:absolute;margin-top:100px;margin-left:100px;z-index:999;display:none;">Pop up message</div>
 
 
<a href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('popupMsg').style.display='block';"></a>

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The drop down menu selection can be done using javascript: http://www.webdevelopersnotes.com/tips/html/getting_the_text_from_an_html_drop_down_selection_list.php3

Thanks!,

i will have a pay around with what you have sent me looks right for what i need,

in reference to the Java Dropdown how would i split the content down

a value will look like this

ID:Name:Length
3838:My Option Name:18


What i would then need to do with that information from popup one  is do a query based on the ID number, in popup two and then use the information from popup 2 on some different fields.


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How do i load differnt data into that popup window?

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>> How do i load differnt data into that popup window? <<
What do you mean different?  What is the data exactly?  What are the cases or tests for the data?
To load it if you use an element like the one described you would use element.innerHTML to change or set the contents.  For example if your pop up has a div with the id "results" where you want the data then you would use ...
document.getElementById("results").innerHTML = "The data for the element";
Let me know what else you need or if you have a question.  Of course there may be other ways to do it but the above works if the page is already loaded and you just want to change an element.
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Hi,

Thanks for the reply i have detailed what i am trying to achive below.


When someone has set a dropdown box to say "12", "18","24" and so forth depending on the data type i want to be able to use that in an SQL query in which i can then get more data from the the Database, this information wouldnt be avalible until the user starts to fill the form in,

I want either a facebook style popup or how would i get data from a java popup window into my parent,

(I am open to both and any more ideas you have)

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is Ajax fully compatible with PHP as i am using a linux server with cPanel.

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Thanks for the advise guys.