RE: [cgiapp] OT: Many HTML <select>'s ... one Data Source

["Brian Cassidy" <suppressed>]

Bill,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill McCormick [mailto:suppressed

> involved the ability to programmatically "link" <select>'s together and
> change the options of one based on the selection of another - without
> having to submit the form. Not having to submit after each user 
> <select>ion is, of course, key and I think not possible with just 
> Perl/Apache/MySQL ... or is it?

While this is perhaps not exactly what you're looking for, you may be
interested in JavaScript remote procedure calls.

Brent Ashley has a free library [1] [2] for which I've written an
accompanying CGI-based server (in Perl of course) [3].

Brent's select-box demo [4] does what you're talking about.

HTH,

-Brian

[1] http://www.ashleyit.com/rs/
[2] http://www.ashleyit.com/rs/jsrs/test.htm
[3] http://search.cpan.org/dist/JavaScript-RPC/
[4] http://www.ashleyit.com/rs/jsrs/select/php/select.php


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