Question

I’m wanting to have a dropdown on my form, the options will be titles to content in my database, I want the content to show in a ckeditor when delected.

I’m looking to do something like the below with jquery and need a little help.

if ‘dropdown’ value is not ‘please select’
CKeditor value equals php variable from database.
end statement

I’m fairly happy getting the variables in php so just need some jquery to change the ckeditor value dependant on the dropdown not being defaulted.

Hope this makes sense and thanks in advance for any responses.

Answer 1

html:

<select name="select" id="select">
    <option value="">Select</option>
    <option value="option1">Option 1</option>
    <option value="option2">Option 2</option>
    <option value="option3">Option 3</option>
    <option value="option4">Option 4</option>
    <option value="option5">Option 5</option>
</select>
<div id="result" style="border:1px solid #000;padding:10px;color:#ff0000;display:none;"></div>

jQuery dont forget to include the jquery file

$(document).ready(function(){
  $('#select').change(function() {
    var option = $(this).val();
    $.get('select.php', {select:option}, function(data) {
      $('#result').html(data).hide().fadeIn(1000);
    });
  });
});

your php file (select.php)

if(!empty($_GET['select'])) {
    //call database and bring back the content for this selection and echo it
}