Ajax event problem

[cichlid]

Hi All,
Please excuse my ignorance. This is my first ever bit of DOM/JavaScript coding...

I am modifying an Ajax livesearch script. At the moment it correctly passes $q to the PHP search script, but does not pass $submitted or $database unless the user hits submit.

I would like to offer the ability to search a specific database ($database) so the value of the select gets passed across to the script. Unfortunately, I haven't the foggiest idea how to do this.

Any ideas/pointers would be extremely grateful!

Many thanks!



<form action="livesearch_results.php" method="GET" target="searchWindow">
<input type="hidden" name="submitted" value="submit"/>

<input type="text" name="q" id="q" size="15" onkeyup="loadXMLDoc('livesearch_results.php?q='+this.value)" style="width:250px; " />


<select name="database">
<option value="news">in news</option>
<option value="articles">in articles</option>
<option value="glossary">in glossary</option>
<option value="directory">in shop finder</option>
<option value="backissues">in back issues</option>
</select>

[zeke donetello]

<input type="text" name="q" id="q" size="15" onkeyup="loadXMLDoc('livesearch_results.php?q='+this.value)" style="width:250px; " />
would become
<input type="text" name="q" id="q" size="15" onkeyup="buildParamList(this);" style="width:250px; " />

function buildParamList(obj)
{
var url = 'livesearch_results.php?q=' + obj.value;
var db = "&database=' + document.getElementById('database').value;

loadXMLDoc(url)
}

You need to ad the id tag to the database select control.

This is just a general idea of how you could do it, hope it helps.