Combo Boxes

[BEEMAA]

Hi All,

Im new to HTML, im designing my own site and what i was/am trying to do is create a page with drop down boxes (combo boxes) where i can select what sort of equipment i want, eg, what model, brand name, and so on, and once i click on GO or Search, i want to be able to display to the user a results page with his/hers search results that match what they selected in the combo boxes...

Your help would be VERY appreciated...

Pedro.

 

[HowardMarks]

Hi Pedro,

This kind of functionality is going to be very difficult to create with just plain html, unless you have one dedicated html page for each product, which would mean you couldn't really 'search' for more than product.

You're going to need to use ASP or some other scripting language, as well a database of products (unless you are using an existing database somewhere), if you want to do this properly.

The actual process of creating this is pretty simple once you have the database and asp support set up. You could use javascript or asp to dynamically populate one dropdown depending on the user's selection in the first one, and then pass the variables to an asp page which connects to the database and pulls out any matching pages.

If you want specific advice on a particular stage ask away. Nick (Web Developer)

http://www.retrographics.co.uk

nick@retrographics.co.uk

 

[BEEMAA]

Thanks Nick,

Do i need to use something like SQL for a database, or will Access do the job ?

Pedro

 

[HowardMarks]

Access should do the job fine for something small like this. Nick (Web Developer)

http://www.retrographics.co.uk

nick@retrographics.co.uk