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Dynamic Select Option Menu Using Ajax And PHP

Last Updated : Jul 1, 2023

IN - Ajax jQuery PHP MySQL | Written & Updated By - Dikshita

In this tutorial we will help you to create a Dynamic Select Option Menu using Ajax and PHP. You may also like floating navigation menu using HTML and CSS.

Dynamic Select Option Menu Using Ajax And PHP

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To create a dynamic select option menu using Ajax and PHP it takes only three steps:-

  1. Make a PHP file and define markup and script for select option menu
  2. Make a CSS file and define styling for select option menu
  3. Connect to the database and Send data

Step 1. Make A PHP file and define markup and script for select option menu

We make a PHP file and save it with a name select.php 

<html>
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="select_style.css">
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
function fetch_select(val)
{
 $.ajax({
 type: 'post',
 url: 'fetch_data.php',
 data: {
  get_option:val
 },
 success: function (response) {
  document.getElementById("new_select").innerHTML=response; 
 }
 });
}

</script>

</head>
<body>
<p id="heading">Dynamic Select Option Menu Using Ajax and PHP</p>
<center>
<div id="select_box">
 <select onchange="fetch_select(this.value);">
  <option>Select state</option>
  <?php
  $host = 'localhost';
  $user = 'root';
  $pass = '';
  mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass);
  mysql_select_db('demo');

  $select=mysql_query("select state from places group by state");
  while($row=mysql_fetch_array($select))
  {
   echo "<option>".$row['state']."</option>";
  }
 ?>
 </select>

 <select id="new_select">
 </select>
	  
</div>     
</center>
</body>
</html>

In this step we get the states from our places table and insert in our first select option menu then we use onchange event which call the fetch_select(); function which passes an ajax request to fetch_data.php and gets the result and insert in our second select option menu.

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Step 2. Make a CSS file and define styling for select option menu

We make a CSS file and save it with name select_style.css. 

body
{
 background-color:#E6E6E6;
 font-family:helvetica;
}
#heading
{
 text-align:center;
 margin-top:150px;
 font-size:30px;
 color:blue;
}
#select_box
{
 width:500px;
 background-color:#819FF7;
 padding:10px;
 height:200px;
 border-radius:5px;
 box-shadow:0px 0px 10px 0px grey;
}
select
{
 width:400px;
 height:50px;
 border:1px solid #BDBDBD;
 margin-top:20px;
 padding:10px;
 font-size:20px;
 color:grey;
 border-radius:5px;
}

Step 3. Connect to the database and Send data

We make a PHP file save it with a name fetch_data.php which is used to connect and fetch data and then send data to select.php file on ajax request. 

<?php
if(isset($_POST['get_option']))
{
 $host = 'localhost';
 $user = 'root';
 $pass = '';
 mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass);
 mysql_select_db('demo');

 $state = $_POST['get_option'];
 $find=mysql_query("select city from places where state='$state'");
 while($row=mysql_fetch_array($find))
 {
  echo "<option>".$row['city']."</option>";
 }
 exit;
}
?>

It gets the value send by ajax request and then find all the cities related that state value and then it send back all the cities to search.php file.

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Thats all, this is how to create a dynamic select option menu using ajax and PHP. You can customize this code further as per your requirement. And please feel free to give comments on this tutorial.

I hope this tutorial on dynamic select option menu helps you and the steps and method mentioned above are easy to follow and implement.

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