Reloading pages - drop down boxes

tickled_pink

I have a form which initially allows users to enter personal details. The last part of the form is a dropdown box with five options.

At the moment, the script checks to see if it's the first time it's been executed. If so, it then adds another external script to the form which contains a 'save details' button.

There's more to it than that but all I want to do at the moment is to find a way of dispensing with the 'save details' button. Instead, I'd like to be able to get the script to reload when a new option is selected from the drop-down box.

I imagine some Javascript is necessary?

intenz

This is not related to PHP.

But you use ..

<select name="foo" onChange="document.location = this.value+'.html'">
<option value="a">A</option>
<option value="b">B</option>
<option value="c">C</option>
<option value="d">D</option>
</select>

tickled_pink

Thanks for that but there a slight complication.

It works fine but I've noticed that it's not posting form variables, which is essential for this to work. It's supposed to load in extra form fields on the following execution of the script, depending on which option is selected from the dropdown box.

Also, how can I get it to redisplay the selected option in the drop down box (at the moment it resets to the first 'default' option)?

tickled_pink

Well, I think I've figured out how to do everything I want to do but I'm still having a problem with the variable that holds the details of the drop-down box.

I have the following snippet of code:

       <select name="property_type" onChange="document.location=this.value + 'addproperty.php'
														+ '?firstrun=<? echo $firstrun ?>'
														+ '&property_type=<? echo $property_type ?>'">
          <option <? if ($property_type == "Hotel")
		  				echo "selected" ?>>Hotel</option>
          <option <? if ($property_type == "Bed and Breakfast")
		  				echo "selected" ?>>Bed and Breakfast</option>
          <option <? if ($property_type == "Caravan/Camping Site")
		  				echo "selected" ?>>Caravan/Camping Site</option>
          <option <? if ($property_type == "Holiday Cottage")
		  				echo "selected" ?>>Holiday Cottage</option>
          <option <? if ($property_type == "Hostel/Bunkhouse")
		  				echo "selected" ?>>Hostel/Bunkhouse</option>
        </select>

The variable that's causing the problem is $property_type. Am I misunderstanding the value that will be stored here when a selection is made in the drop-down box? Or is there an issue with passing the variable back to the script when a selection is made?

BTW: The remainder of the code works fine as it's been manually tested by hard coding a string to $property_type. Unfortunately, when the hard coding is removed, $property_type remains null.

$firstrun is passed ok and so I can only think it's something to do with the way the dropdown box passes values to a variable.