Question

In Dreamweaver I have a list box or menu/list.
I am dynamically adding data from an array into it, so when the page loads, I have a list-box with names in.

This is how it looks

<?php
       echo "<select name="."username"."id="."username".">";
        foreach ($user_array as $arr) {
        echo "<option>$arr</option>";
        }
        echo "</select>";
      ?>

Now how do I go about making the listbox executesomething when the user selects something in it?

Because I have three other textboxes, and when the user selects a name in the list box, I want to put that name he selected into a variable (also don’t know how I’m going to do that with a list box) and then search through my database and insert some of the data of that person in the textboxes.

So all i need to know is:

1. How to create that on event click event and
2. How to put that selected value then in a variable (inside the event)

Answer 1

You can easily execute a javascript function by using something like this:

<select name=".$username."id=".$username." onchange='yourfunction()' >