[prog] perl woes...

Patricia Fraser trish at thefrasers.org
Sat May 31 23:19:59 EST 2003


Hi Wolfgang,

> > [...] I'd like the choices the user makes in the first two lists to
> > be able to be plugged into the select statement for the third list,
> > so the third list will only have data according to the first two
> > choices.
>
> I have seen this kind of pages a few times on the web. You are right,
> this is not simple. As far as I know you have to use JavaScript to
> automatically reload your page immediately after the user has made
> the last (in your case: second) choice.
>
> I don't know details about this; my first try would be a web search
> for JavaScript tutorials and/or examples.

Thanks for this; I'd sort of come to the same conclusion. Anyway, we've 
messed with the database design some, to make it unneccessary for the 
first part - if it gets too difficult, we'll just have to do that again!

Cheers,

-- 
Trish Fraser, Sunbury, Australia
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