The answer depends on a few things:
1) Whether or not you are willing to issue a new page request in order
to populate the second list.
2) How much data do you have.
With JavaScript, you'll basically need to download the whole dataset
to the client - which is probably not fair and may even cause a crash
on less well equipped systems, whereas a quick request back to the
server would be pretty breezy by comparison.
OTOH, if you your data set is fairly small (try exporting everything
to a CSV and see what the KB weight is (<120 is a good target); then
JavaScript probably is worth the effort just to avoid an ugly page
refresh.
It is a myth that JavaScript is significantly more difficult than PHP.
A little obtuse, perhaps, but it would be a short leap. There is an
abundance of script templates that do exactly what you describe. I
particularly like hotscripts.com as a resource for this.
Good Luck
On 30 Nov 2004 14:16:21 -0800,
adamnichols45@hotmail.com (adam) wrote:
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>Hi - im looking to have two drop down boxs one with makes of car and
>the second drop down box to automatically populate with all the model
>of that particular make of car. there are about 50 makes and upto 50
>models per make.
>
>I just would like to know the best way to do this - javascript or use
>a database? it would be a lot of code todo it in javascript wouldnt
>it?? help is very much appreciated thanks guys.[/color]
Ciao,
Ginzo
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