Jump Menu (JS) + dynamic menus

[Anon]

Hello

I've got following difficulties:
I've got a form with some select Menus, which I load by values from a database. Now I want the menu when clicked to submit its name and its value in an URL so I can use this values to use them in a new Query.

The pattern is like this:
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echo"<select name=\"keyWordSENT[]\" \">";
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echo"<option name=\"keywordSENT" value=\"$keyword[0]\">$keyword[0]</option>";

Now I want to use the name and value when I click on this menu value.

Thank you very much for your help.

[Anon]

<select name="keyWordSENT[]" onclick="document.your_form.submit();">

When the user clicks something in the select menu, the form will be submitted to where ever you have the action= part set to in the <form> tag. You'll then have access to the $keyWordSENT variable, which will hold what the user checked...

Is this a select box where you can select multiple items, or are there multiple select boxes? I'm just curious why you make it an array []??

---John Holmes...

[Anon]

Probably the best way to do this is without using heaps of javascript....

<form name="the_form" action="script_2.php3">
<select name="keyWordSENT" onChange="document.the_form.submit()">
<option value="$name.$value">OPTION1</option>
</select>
</form>

Then in your script just separate the $name.$value by removing the dot and you have to values you can then use.

Is this what you were after?

scott d~

[Anon]

Thank you John for your message.
It's a select menu with multiple options and the options are generated by a database query.

Thanx

Greetings
Tarik

[Anon]

You might have to use another method than onclick or onchange, if it's a multiple select box. It might just be easier to have a submit button.

Also, I don't think there is a name tag in the <option>

<option value="my value">Display This</option>

no name="" part.....it doesn't give you an error because HTML is very forgiving. it just ignores it.

---John Holmes...