Re: [PHP] Dynamic Select Lists - 1st Selection Effects 2nd!

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Boyd, Todd M. <tmboyd1@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: Micah Gersten [mailto:micah@xxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Thursday, July 31, 2008 1:59 PM
To: PHP General list
Subject: Re: [PHP] Dynamic Select Lists - 1st Selection Effects 2nd!

What I usually do is default to the most common country and show the
associated states.
You can change the states if they change the country.

Thank you,
Micah Gersten
onShore Networks
Internal Developer
http://www.onshore.com



Andrew Ballard wrote:
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:40 PM, Rahul S. Johari
<sleepwalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Ave,

What I have is two Select (Drop-Down) lists (State & County) and I'm
populating them from a mySQL table. What I want is when the user
selects the
State from the State List, the County List should only pull out
counties
associated with that State.

[snip]

This is a usability issue rather than a code issue, but wouldn't you
want that to be the other way around? (ie, select the country from a
list and it populates the state list with
states/provinces/territories/adminstrative disticts/etc. that belong
to that country?) I know the order is "backward" from how one
typically writes an address on paper, but otherwise your state list
will be HUGE and often your country list would only have one value
after the user selects a state.

*cough*

...pretty sure he wrote "county", guys. ;)


Todd Boyd
Web Programmer


Oops. Sure did. My mistake. I'm so used to dealing with country lists
my eyes glossed right over the word 'county'. :-)

Andrew
.

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