Drop Down Menus

[Jay_Is_Taken]

I'm using the code below to create a dynamic drop down menu that lists all the folders in a directory. All the option's values are the paths to those directorys. This all works fine, but what I need now is to pass on the value of the chosen option to a second drop down menu that will show all the sub-directorys of that option. I hope you guys understand what mean. Thanks for your help.

<select name="Console" id="Console" onChange="MM_jumpMenu('parent',this,0)">
<option>Chose One</option>
<?php
$path = "/var/www/html/emulation/";
$dir_handle = @opendir($path) or die("We're sorry, but the feature you're trying to use is avalible at this time."); // Open the folder
while ($file = readdir($dir_handle)) { // Loop through the files
if($file == "." || $file == ".." || $file == "index.php" )
continue;
echo "<option value=$path$file>$file</option>";}
closedir($dir_handle); // Close
?>
</select>

[rpanning]

So your looking for something like:

Dir1     >   Dir2     >  Dir3
----------   ----------  -----------
File1        File1       File1
File2        File2       File2
File3        File3       File3

Or something else? Give us an example of the output you want.

[Jay_Is_Taken]

The output would be a dropdown menu which lists all the sub directories of $path. I have that code working fine. What I need to do is make a second drop down that populates depending on the option chosen in the first. For example if the option chosen had a value of "/val/www/html/emulation/atari/" the second drop down would populate with the folders in the atari directory.

[The_Chancer]

There are various aways of doing this - depending on whether you want to submit the page first and then progress, or do it all through javascript after having PHP load the variables into some form of array within the page.

Admittedly, I would recommend loading the page over again - as this would speed up the page load (imagine loads of recursive directories.. that would take ages for javascript to sift through)

All you would do is pass the value of the first select box to the same form, and let it know to display two of the select boxes, and populate the second just like the first.

Obviously you could find some difficulty in that there could (theoretically) be 1000s of nested folders...