Daevid Vincent wrote:
I need to dynamically update a select box
with results from a SQL database using AJAX,
but I can't find a single example of how to do this.
Break it down in to stages.
1. Make the request to the server
2. Have the PHP gather the data from the database
3. Return the data
Daevid Vincent wrote:
I need to dynamically update a select box
with results from a SQL database using AJAX,
but I can't find a single example of how to do this.
Basically I have a text input field, and a select box.
As someone types in the input field,
I want the select box to fill in
Greg Beaver wrote:
Daevid Vincent wrote:
I need to dynamically update a select box
with results from a SQL database using AJAX,
but I can't find a single example of how to do this.
Basically I have a text input field, and a select box.
As someone types in the input field,
I want the
Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
Greg Beaver wrote:
Daevid Vincent wrote:
I need to dynamically update a select box with results from a SQL
database using AJAX, but I can't find a single example of how to do
this.
Basically I have a text input field, and a select box. As someone
types
Greg Beaver wrote:
This is far too complicated. You don't need 50 lines of code to convert
from server-side data to HTML when the browser does it for you (and far
more efficiently) with this code:
var someCallback = {
ajaxfunc: function(res) {
Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
Greg Beaver wrote:
This is far too complicated. You don't need 50 lines of code to convert
from server-side data to HTML when the browser does it for you (and far
more efficiently) with this code:
var someCallback = {
ajaxfunc: function(res) {
1) what if the returned markup is invalid?
Well, the browser renders it oddly, and through the fact that your
server-side code is straightforward filling in an html template with
actual values, all you need to do is view the source (with the firefox
web debugging extension you can view
Hello,
on 03/17/2006 11:42 PM Daevid Vincent said the following:
I need to dynamically update a select box
with results from a SQL database using AJAX,
but I can't find a single example of how to do this.
Basically I have a text input field, and a select box.
As someone types in the
Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
1) what if the returned markup is invalid?
Well, the browser renders it oddly, and through the fact that your
server-side code is straightforward filling in an html template with
actual values, all you need to do is view the source (with the firefox
web
Greg Beaver wrote:
This is obvious: you need only test the output of the PHP server class,
All the more reasons to use a serialization markup language instead of
just plain HTML. Testing for specific HTML output may break if the HTML
output changes, but not if you're using XML or JSON,
Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) wrote:
Just for argument's sake: the result is not identical. Assume, for
one second, that you have two PHP functions:
function getCitiesAsHTML($countryName);
function getCitiesAsXML($countryName);
The first issues a snippet of HTML text, with options. The second
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