Display list help

[Dillenger]

I need some help with this:

I'm trying to display certain boardTypes when the user selects the type from a drop down list... Here is my code so far, can anyone help me or give me some insight?

<form action="<? echo $PHP_SELF ?>" method="post">
<?
require('config.inc');
// connect to database
$cid = mysql_connect($host,$usr,$passwd);
$select_db = mysql_select_db($db);
?>

<select name="chooseboardtype" class="formtext" action="display">
      <option>-- select a board type --</option>

		<option value="$boardType=Men">Men</option>
		<option value="$boardType=Women">Women</option>
		<option value="$boardType=Childern">Children</option>
		<option value="$boardType=Racer">Racer</option>
</select>
</form>


<? if (isset ($display)) {
do { 
  echo "$boardType";
}
  ?>

[planetsim]

<option value="$boardType=Men">Men</option>
<option value="$boardType=Women">Women</option>
<option value="$boardType=Childern">Children</option>
<option value="$boardType=Racer">Racer</option>

Why do you have a $ sign in the value its not going to return the results for you.

If you want the person to select something and automatically show up without refreshing the page you may wanna take a look into Javascript or VBscript.

Otherwise it'll need to be a form and someway of submitting the data to show up if you want to do PHP.