Populating fields from a drop down box

[Anon]

Hi,

I am new to PHP and trying to learn!

I have a page that has a drop down box which I have succesfully configured to show the values from a database.

I now need to fill the text boxes on the same page with the values of the specific record selected from the drop down box.

As an example:
The drop down holds the registration numbers of cars. If a specific registration number is selected I need the details of this car (age, mileage, etc) to be shown in the text boxes on the same page without having to ask the user to click on any buttons.

I hope that makes sense.

Any help greatly appreciated.

Kind regards
Dean

[Anon]

You can go about this two different ways:

1) have an onChange event handler submit the form and then generate a new page. This is the easiest.
2) populate several javascript arrays with all the possible data. When the user selects the id number, use the onChange event handler to populate the form fields.

I hope this helps.

[Anon]

Just a note to says thanks

I have sorted the issue and it's working fine now.

Dean