using form data within the form

Anon

Hi,
I've populated a select element with options from the title field of a mysql database. Now, I want to show the values of the other fields in the same row as the selected option when the user clicks on a particular option. Any ideas how I go ahead doing that??

Tej

Anon

That's a javascript problem there man - As far as I know, PHP can't do that.

As for the javascript - this function should help ya:

function setTownList() {
var srcList = window.document.forms[0].srcList;
var townList = window.document.forms[0].townList;

townList.value = "";
for(var i=0; i < srcList.length; i++) {
	if(srcList.options[i].selected) {
		if(townList.value != "")
			townList.value = townList.value + ", " + srcList.options[i].text;
		else
			townList.value = srcList.options[i].text;
	}
}

}

</SCRIPT>

Hope this helps...
-=Lazzerous=-

Anon

Thanks for the reply. I'm aware that javascript can do it, but is there any way I can make an onChange or onFocus javascript function update the value of the primary field in the php code when the user selects another option. Then using the value of the changed primary key I can query the database to output the values of the other fields and echo them on the page. Would appreciate it if you could give me a few pointers here.

tej