javascript pop up navigation bar?

[searain]

My designer would like to use the javascript pop up navigation bar, same kind like in this msn page.

http://slate.msn.com/id/2065896/view/2057069/

I have no problems with that.

But my problem is that for example, in our site the button of the "shop" supposed to pop up a menu of all the categories of my shop, such as "cookware, home improvement, tools". And the categories it is going to pop up, it should be from the database table of "category", and the value of the table of "category" changes, the pop up menu should be changed too. Such as if the another record "sports equipment" added to the "category" table, the pop up menu should reflect the changes as " cookware, home improvement, tools, sports equipment".

In simple words, how can I use the pop up navigation bar as in http://slate.msn.com/id/2065896/view/2057069/

But to make what will be pop up decided dynamically by the value from the database?

I think I could use the php to get the value from the database, and I have to find a way to merge the values get by php from database to the javascript pop up navigation bar.

Any other solutions or alternative approach I can use, to have a nice navigation bar and aslo have the items of the navigation bar created dynamically from the database?

Thanks.

[The_Chancer]

Just as a suggestion, write the code as you want it in its final stage, noting which bits you would like to be drawn from the database.

Then get the info from the database and try and put it into the respective parts that you noted in step 1.

For information on database connections, have a look at the PHP manual, and the syntax for the particular database you are using.