Please Please Help

[Conty]

I am new to Dreamweaver and I was told to post my questions here

THANKS!!

Hi all

I am a very very new user to JavaScript and know very little so I am going to try and explain my problems to the best of my ability. If you are confused please let me know.

I am not hard coding JavaScript to make webpages. I am using Dreamweaver to help me through however I have come to a point in which I think that Dreamweaver can no longer prevent me from learning JavaScript or another langauge to help me out. Okay so here are my main two problems.

ONE:
I am using Access and Dreamweaver so that users can enter in information into an Access database from forms created in Dreamweaver. In one of the forms I want to enter in many Customers for a specific product. This cause a problem because the data that is being entered into that specific form is mostly in one table. Because the customers and products are a many to one relationship they have to be entered into a different table. So I have to do one of two things both of which I do not know how to do. One pass the product name entered to a different form in which the user can select multiple customers or two enter in information from one form into two seperate tables. Any ideas????

TWO:
I am trying to create connected comboboxes that limit the users search. I want the comboboxes to be generated from the records in the database. I have found a lot of code where once the user picks one from the first pull down the next pull down in limited and then the next and the next and so forth. I want this to be done but rather than typing in all of the selections I want the selections to be made from the database list and I want the connections to be limited by the relational database.

I hope this is making sense. I really hope someone out there can help me or point me in a direction cause I am really stuck and can't really find anyone to help.

Thanks in advance
Jen

[thorpe]

for starters, this isn't a javascript board. its php. are you using php with access? most access users are using asp, though you can query it with php.

if your using php, you might want to start with some tutorials. the manual is a good place to start.

[Conty]

I am not even sure where to ask for help. I do not know if I should read php or if I should study asp or JavaScript I was kinda hoping that somebody knew what I was trying to do could either show me where to go or have some insight into what I should study.

Thanks

[thorpe]

well javascript is client side code. popup windows, user interaction and the like. asp and php are both server side languages which process form data, interact with databases and the like. having worked with both i would always recommend php over asp. its just more feature packed.

having said all that. these are programming languages im talking about, so even simple tasks will require a basic understanding of how things work. php can connect to and edit data stored in an access database, so would be able to achieve your goals.

as i said. the manual would be a good place to start. there is a simple tutorial to get you started, and you just go on from there.