Hi,
You could try the JQuery Taconite Plugin.
http://www.malsup.com/jquery/taconite/#overview
Regards,
Changsu
On Nov 4, 9:32 am, stef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> using the code below, im trying to populate the textfield and the
> textarea with data stored in my db.
>
> HTML PAGE:
> <head>
> <script src="../js/jquery-1.1.3.1.pack.js" type="text/javascript"></
> script>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> $(document).ready(function(){
> $("#editNewsItem").change( function()
> {
> var newsId = $("#editNewsItem").attr("value");
>
> $("textarea#title").load("processing.php",{theId:newsId});
>
> $("textarea#article").load("processing.php",{theId:newsId});
>
> });
> });
>
> </script>
> </head>
>
> <form action="processing.php" method="post">
>
> <select name='news' id='editNewsItem' name='editNewsItem'>
> <option value="1">one</option>
> <option value="2">two</option>
> </select>
>
> <input type="submit" value="submit" id="" name="editNewsSubmit"/>
> <input type="text" id='title' />
> <textarea id='article' cols='20' rows='20'></textarea>
>
> PROCESSING.PHP
>
> include ('../inc/db.inc.php');
>
> $newsId = $_POST['theId'];
>
> $query = "select title from news where news.id = $newsId";
> $result = mysql_query($query) or die ('problem!');
> $newsRow = mysql_fetch_array($result,MYSQL_ASSOC);
> extract ($newsRow);
> echo $newsRow['title'];
>
> $query2 = "select article from news where news.id = $newsId";
> $result2 = mysql_query($query2) or die ('problem2');
> $newsRow2 = mysql_fetch_array($result2,MYSQL_ASSOC);
> echo $newsRow2['article'];
>
> the result is that when i change the select menu, the correct data
> gets returned but both the title and the article text appear in the
> textarea. how can i get the title (from $query) to appear in the text
> field and the article (from $query2) to appear in the textarea?
>
> id also like to use a callback to insert a <span>Success!<span> into
> the DOM.
>
> many thanks for any pointers,
> stef
>
> ps - the title is just text but the article is html (stored in the db
> as html generated by tinymce)
