Links from a Drop Down Menu

tuscan

I am still learning my way around PHP and MYSQL and need some help please.

I have a form that the users select either Girl or Boy (not PHP) and then this populates a PHP Drop Down menu with a list of names relevant to either Girl or Boy e.g. Jane, Julie etc or Fred, Joe etc.

Then if the user selects say Fred, I want this to be a link to a PDF (which will be the value in the option tag, in the html, which is populated from MYSQL) which opens ideally in a new Window.

Not sure this can be done with just PHP but any help would be appreciated.

Hope this makes sense.

meigwil

I'm afraid it doesn't make much sense.

Could you explain again please? What is the purpose of your form? Do you want link to and open a PDF?

Thanks,

Mei

nrg_alpha

Not sure if I am following properly.. but if I got this straight, to my knowledge, I don't think PHP itself can open new windows.. this sounds more like a Javascript thing (which I know javascript CAN open new windows).

Or...

Perhaps using the 'target' attribute in your <a href> to open a new window, and the URL points to a separate php script? But maybe I am misunderstanding this entirely..

Cheers,

NRG

tuscan

meigwil wrote:
I'm afraid it doesn't make much sense.

Could you explain again please? What is the purpose of your form? Do you want link to and open a PDF?

Thanks,

Mei

Thanks for the replies.
I will try and explain what I want to do in more detail.

I want to display some links to pdfs. first off all someone selects either 2007 or 2008 from a drop down menu. Then from their selection another drop down is populated (from PHP or Javascript or something else) with the list of pdfs for that year. Then the user would select the pdf they want and then click a button which would open the pdf.

Hope that makes sense. I am populating the pdfs drop down using PHP but my problem is i can get the pdfs (their filenames) into the drop down but how do I get their selection to be a link when they click on the form button?

NOT SURE if I am going about this the wrong way or if PHP is not the right thing to use for this.

Thanks again for your help and appreciate any more comments/ideas.

ragedigital

PHP is a server-side language. You would have to have the drop-down menu on a separate page after selecting the year via a FORM.

Look into AJAX if you want to keep the user on the same page.