courses in dreamweaver - Linking forms

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Tue 27 Feb 2007, 16:47 Delegate Gavin said...

Gavin has attended:
Dreamweaver 8 Introduction course
Dreamweaver 8 Intermediate course

Linking forms

I want to have 2 drop down menus

Counties and Cities.

How can i link the forms/text boxes so that when a county is selected in the first drop down menu, the cities/towns in that county are then listed in the second drop down.....and then from there onto a page for that town selected?

Wed 28 Feb 2007, 09:52 Trainer David said...

DreamWeaver and HTML Linking drop down boxes and forms

Hi Gavin

I hope you found your dreamweaver 8 courses useful.

The way that I would do this would be to get the values that you want to put in your drop down boxes, dynamically from a database. To do this you basically set up a database on your webserver, and then you can get the values you want in your drop down boxes using SQL.

Hope this helps

David

Wed 28 Feb 2007, 10:15 Delegate Gavin said...

RE: DreamWeaver and HTML Linking drop down boxes and forms

hi Daviv,

where can i find out how to do this?

Thanks
gavin

Wed 28 Feb 2007, 10:25 Edited on Wed 28 Feb 2007, 10:25 Trainer David said...

RE: DreamWeaver and HTML Linking drop down boxes and forms

Hi Gavin

Firstly you will need to purchase web hosting with database backing, the provider that I personally use for this is easyspace.

Once you have done this, it would be a good idea to learn SQL and and a web programming language such as JSP or PHP. This will give you a good understanding of how to do this.

Hope this helps

David

Wed 28 Feb 2007, 14:02 Trainer Rich said...

RE: Linking forms

Gavin,

It's a little bit complicated. Usually this is achieved by using Javascript, so you may want to read up on how to implement Javascript into your web pages.

There's a brilliant example of what you want here.

Be prepared for it to take a while and lots of fiddling to get it perfect.

Good luck.

Rich