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[billy reisinger]

Not necessarily - you don't have to use Ajax in this case. As Alberto said
in the first reply to your post, you can embed a Javascript array (built by
PHP during the page request) that is embedded in the page source or is
included in a javascript file.  You can then use the values in this array to
populate your menu on the fly.  No need for asynchronous requests (Ajax).
Not that I don't like Ajax, but it is not necessarily the ideal solution in
this case - why grab the menu data from the database every time the user
mouses over or selects a parent category?  There is certain to be noticeable
latency every once in a while; in addition, this behavior wastes bandwidth
and server processing time.  If you were running a website that got a ton of
traffic, this would be a big no-no.
Uncle Billy

On 3/27/06, Alberto dos Santos <yournway at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Thank you all,
> I think I have to study that "ajax thing", oh dear....
>
> Cheers,
>
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