Hi
I am new to javascript.
I have two drop downs used to reload the page displaying selected information.

How do I get the OnChange function to pass year and user form the drop down.
I also need to pass data in the array $month.

<html>
<head>
<body>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
<!--

function OnChange(dropdown)
{
  //reload page after drop down selection
  window.location.href="http://localhost/month_view.php?u_user_id=" +
  dropdown.options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value    "&year="+   "&month="+ ;
}
--->


 <table>
   <tr><td>
     <!--year drop down-->
     <select name ="year" onChange ="javascript:OnChange(this)"
      <option value="">Select</option>
      <option value="2007">2007</option>
      <option value="2008">2008</option>
     </select>

	
      
     <select name = "user_id" onChange ="javascript:OnChange(this)"
      <option value="">Select</option>
      <option value="1">Frank</option>
      <option value="2">Mark</option>
     </select>
     
</td>    
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
 <?php
 	//display information based on selected year, month and user
 	display_info($year, $month, $user);
 ?>
	
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</head>
</html>

First - it looks like you are trying to re-load the page to early. It is the first line in your function - so you will lose whatever was selected in the drop down.

Clean way is just make a var:

var year;

and assign it to the value of the dropdown at the **beginning** of your function

year = options[dropdown.selectedIndex].value;

if you need to use both year AND user when you refresh the page - then instead of passing (this) from the onchange hander - just give an id to each SELECT element and then look up each one with document.getElementById() in your function.

Then you can get the year and the user before you refresh the page again.

Hi

Thanks for the response and suggestion.
I could not a single function to work.
I could get 2 seperate functions working and it does the job.

I am curious why your suggestion won;t work as one function but will wor as two?

solution

<html>
<head>
<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

function YearChange()
{
   var year = document.getElementById('year').value;
   window.location.href="http://localhost/month_view.php?year=" + year;
}

function ProChange()
{
   var providerId = document.getElementById('provider_id').value;
   window.location.href="http://localhost/month_view.php?u_org_pro_id=" + providerId;
}

</script>
</head>
<body>
 <table>
   <tr><td>

   <select name= "year" onchange="javascript:YearChange();">
     <?
        //dynamic year dropdown 14 years (4 back, current and 9 forward)
	year_only($year);
     ?>
    </select>
 
      
    <select name= "user_id" onchange="javascript:ProChange();">
       <?
 	  //display information based on selected year, month and user
 	  display_info($year, $month, $user);     
       ?>
    </select>

</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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