Two dynamic listboxes using AJAX, PHP and MySql updating a textbox

[johntigner]

i'm a newbie with MySql, AJAX and PHP and i need help to guide me in the right direction

i need to make a quote form that uses two dropdown listboxes and a text box
to access a database with two tables... table and zonerate. the fields are

MySql Database name is web_data containing tables:

TABLE ..........id - code - key - text

id should be used as a filter id=ZN
text contains city and zone names
code contains the zone code for that city or zone

ZONERATE.....zone1 - zone2 - price

zone1 and zone2 contain the same code used in the above TABLE.code field

i need to populate both listboxes with zone names from TABLE then
after selecting a zone in LISTBOX1.. the pickup zone ....store the value from code in a variable $pzone and
after selecting a zone in LISTBOX2..the drop off zone ..store the value from code in a variable $dzone?


from here i need to use Variables $pzone and $dzone to match the vatues in table ZONERATE fields zone1 and zone2 to find the value in field price and if a value exists display it in TEXTBOX



I would be grateful for any and all help

[mlemos]

You may want to take a look at this PHP Forms Generation and Validation (http://www.phpclasses.org/formsgeneration) class.

It comes with a plug-in that can do exactly what you want: link select inputs retrieving options from a database on the server via AJAX when the previous input changes its value.

Here is a live example of a form with linked select inputs (http://www.meta-language.net/forms-examples.html?example=test_linked_select) that uses this plug-in.

Here you may also watch a tutorial video about the linked select plug-in (http://www.phpclasses.org/browse/video/1/package/1/section/plugin-linked-select.html).