php form entry from list

How to get a menu/list on a form to update a field on the form so the user does not have to enter. IE: if the states were listed in a table and the menu/list contral was on the form and the user selects a state how to get it into the state field on the form. I have many apps for this code and it has stiffled my prograss.
Can someone point me in the right direction please...

 

You need client-side JavaScript. On one element's change (e.g. combo box selection, edit box contents, etc), you can a) submit a half-filled form so that the server-side script would pre-populate some of it or b) have client-side JS fill in some of the fields. In the second case, you will have to return to the client all of the choices and just select the appropriate ones with JS.

J.D.

 

Hi

I found this the other day on phpclasses.org

Cascade Select Associative

I earmarked it for checking it out but haven't yet. Membership is free and they show some ads but they have some brilliant hard to find classes.

Expat
It still uses a bit of Java but only marginal

 

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