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**jeephp** · 06-03-2005, 12:59 AM

Hello!

is it possible to populate the comboxbox in PHP without reloading the

entire page?

we have three combo boxes the values of second combobox is populated from

database according to selected item in first combobox but I don't need to

regresh entire page !!

Thanks!

**0beron** · 06-03-2005, 05:17 AM

You will have to go back to the server to make the database query for the second set of items anyway so I don't think this can be done.

If the first combo box only has a few items in you could display all the possible second ones (invisible) and then show/hide them with javascript.

**Kyrnt** · 06-03-2005, 06:50 AM

jeephp,

0beron speaks the truth, but I wanted to elaborate a bit more. Keep in mind that PHP runs on the server. So by definition, any PHP script or task executed by PHP must, by definition, touch the server. JavaScript is intended as the client-side script. Ignoring VBScript for a moment (quite intentionally), anything you wish to do in the browser without going back to the server must generally be done in JavaScript.