Select form

TonyMontana posted this at 19:53 — 19th February 2004.

Joined: Apr 2001

I want to add multiple attributes to options in a Select drop down list (name,ID etc) as the list is dynamically generated from rows in a database. I can add the name option no problem:

$l = "<FORM METHOD=POST ACTION='$linkProc'>";	 
$l .= "<SELECT NAME = '$listName'>";
	  
	  for ($i=0;$i<$numWins;$i++){
		 $curWin = mysql_fetch_array($getWin,MYSQL_ASSOC);
		 $l .= "<OPTION>" . $curWin[$loopType] . "</OPTION>";
		         }
         $procAppend = $linkProc . "&" . $listName;
$l .= " name = 'tranForm' ONSUBMIT=\"dex=document.tranForm.ListBox.options.selectedIndex;";
$l .= " void(tWin=window.open('$procAppend='+dex+', 'Cntrl','width=300,height=300'));\")";
$l .= "</SELECT>";
$l .= "<br><INPUT TYPE=SUBMIT VALUE='SELECT'>";
$l .= "<INPUT TYPE=HIDDEN NAME=cb VALUE='$cb'>";
	 $l .= "</FORM>";
echo $l;

But I'd like each option to have a database ID value. This is easily done in actionscript, how about javascript?

Thanks,

Busy posted this at 20:20 — 19th February 2004.

He has: 6,151 posts

Joined: May 2001

just add
value=\" $idnumber \"
to your tag, the $idnumber being how ever the id is pulled from database, $curWin[$id] ?

TonyMontana posted this at 00:50 — 22nd February 2004.

They have: 218 posts

Joined: Apr 2001

Thanks. I had a really silly javascript/server side workaround previously...Busy, what's the javascript code for when a user selects an option, an action automatically takes place (without having to press submit)?

Thanks,

Suzanne posted this at 03:51 — 22nd February 2004.

She has: 5,507 posts

Joined: Feb 2000

you can set the action in the form itself to submit without a go button -- or in the individual elements.

http://www.scriptomizers.com/javascript/dropdownmenu_generator may help you, it uses onchange.