The chain select combobox is a usaual need in a web project. Like a Combo box population based on another combobox change event. For example a city combo is populated on change of state combo. Subcategory combo is populated in change of category combo. The select boxes in HTML forms are flexible and can be handled by jquery system.
This feature includes a Jquery ajax call [post or get] and a Json transport of data. and a json parse in the javascript. An ajax controller is required in the server side.
Ziadin Givan written a nice plugin for chained combo box select and complete. also there is a jquery plugin from Remy Sharp which is called Select Chain Both are great plugins for this feature.
Remi Sharp Download
- Download the selectChain plugin
- View the demo PHP script source
- View the demo SQL source
- Demonstration
You can view another tutorial from remisharp here
My customized File of Ziadin Givan