cascading dropdown confusion

[aka-ra]

I hope someone can help me.

I'm trying to create form with a drop down to select manufacturer and a second dropdown to select model. These dropdowns will be populated with car manufacturers and models.

I want the model dropdown to be affected by the manufacturer drop down so, for example, selecting ford in the first will mean the second only shows ford models.

The form will eventually redirect to a url, appending the form data. There is no database tables involved.

I started to do this by having different model dropdowns for each manufacturer and showing/hiding on change. Unfortunately I ran into a limit on the number of javascript items I can have and no more will save.

I then discovered cascading dropdowns and installed the plug in. None of it makes sense to me and the information I can find only seems to be relevant to saving data in a table.

I made a database table with 2 columns, manufacturer and model but I have no idea what to do next or if that is going to help me.

Can anyone make any suggestions as to what I'm missing?

 

[troester]

http://fabrikar.com/forums/index.php?wiki/cascading-dropdown-element/

 

[aka-ra]

Thanks. Worked it out in the end. Appreciate the reply!