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Kagiso
12 Jul 2007, 07:41 AM
I have a dropdownlist on a page that is suppose to link the my database.For some values and when I select a value from it, I should get values from the same database filtered by the same value I select from the dropdown.Problem is, when I run the page.I don get any values in the dropdownlist.

Please help.maybe Im forgetting something
here is the code

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<%Option explicit
Dim oRs, conn, connect, strSQL

set conn=server.CreateObject ("adodb.connection")
connect = "Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;Data Source=" & Server.MapPath("courses.mdb") & ";Persist Security Info=False"
conn.Open connect

%>
<html>

<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>Select Combo</title>
<script language="javascript">
<!--

function dept_onchange(frmSelect) {
frmSelect.submit();
}

//-->
</script>
</head>

<body>

<p>Please Select Something : <%=Request.Form ("courses")%></p>
<form name="frmSelected" method="POST" action="selected.asp">
<SELECT name=courses LANGUAGE=javascript onchange="return dept_onchange(frmSelect)">
<%
Set oRs=Server.CreateObject("adodb.recordset")
strSQL = "SELECT DISTINCT CourseName FROM tblCourses ORDER BY CourseName"
oRs.Open strSQL, conn

Do while not oRs.EOF
if Request.Form("courses") = oRs("CourseName") then 'if this is the selected one then display as selected
Response.Write "<OPTION VALUE = '" & oRS ("CourseName") & "' SELECTED>"
Response.Write oRs("CourseName") & "</Option>"
oRs.MoveNext
else
Response.Write "<OPTION VALUE = '" & oRs ("CourseName") & "'>"
Response.Write oRs("CourseName") & "</Option>"
oRs.MoveNext
end if
loop
%>
</SELECT>

</form>
<p>&nbsp;<!--

--></p>

</body>

</html>