Busy — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 21:50:24 +0000

Oh well I guess I can scrap that idea, can use if/else on the next page, one more page wont hurt them

thanks guys

Mark Hensler — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 18:13:32 +0000

I had a project once where I had several drop downs who's values were dependant on previous drop downs. Nothing really special about this except the number of combinations that were possible. The solution we came up with was to use a database with a dependency table and php to print out a complex JavaScript to run the client-side form controls. The page was very heavy to load but performed as needed.

Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 08:18:18 +0000

Controlling form elements is only client-side, unfortunately. Flash/Java/etc can check with the server, but that's probably not a good option.

Busy — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 07:53:33 +0000

would rather not use javascript if can help it

I'm not sure you want to offer to do the if/else, it's over 1200 options in total from 35 main options. with PHP it's not so bad as the selected items can be checked against the database catagories and jumping from javascript to php and back would be massive amount of code to include a noscript option.

Abhishek Reddy — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 03:29:50 +0000

<input type="submit" id="submitbutton" disabled="true" />'

And you can enable it using the DOM, something like:

document.getElementById("submitbutton").disabled=false;'

Add if/else statements around it to check if the dropdowns are all selected. Do you want help with that also?

Renegade — Mon, 15 Dec 2003 02:01:52 +0000

I have never seen this done with PHP but I have seen it done with Javascript though. Don't know how to do it and can't find it anywhere either :S