Javascript + PHP: Move items from one pick list to another?

[dmcheng]

I've been beating my head against the wall on the following problem:

On my PHP page, I want to display two lists (side-by-side); Available Items and Selected Items. In between the two lists are a right-point arrow button and left-pointing arrow button. If you click on an Available Item and click the right arrow, the item moves to the Selected Items list. And vice-versa with the left arrow.

The Available Items are populated from a MySQL table. Here's the hard part: the Selected Items need to go into a different MySQL table (same database).

I have found Javascript code that does the lists and button functions and I can get my data into the Available Items list, but I can't get the data out of Selected Items into PHP.

I've checked the various Ajax toolkits like Dojo, Yahoo UI, etc and they don't have this widget. I've googled for raw code to do this but haven't found any specific examples of this.

Does anyone know of a toolkit or a code example that does this?

Thanks
David

[jernhenrik]

http://www.mattkruse.com/javascript/selectbox/

Excellent toolkit for all your select box needs.

hth

Edit: After re-reading your post I guess that you have allready handled the select box javascript part. I'll just advice you to ignore my post then 🙂

[Kudose]

Have you checked out Scriptalicious?