Dynamic Drop Down Select Menu with PHP, MySQL and JavaScript

In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create dynamic, database-driven multi-select drop down menus using PHP, JavaScript, and MySQL.
We'll cover how to populate a drop down menu with countries and dynamically fetch corresponding cities when a country is selected. 🗺️✨

What’s in the video?
Overview of the MySQL database structure, including the countries and cities tables.
Writing reusable PHP functions for database connection and fetching data.
Dynamically populating the country drop down using PHP.
Using JavaScript's fetch API to dynamically load cities based on the selected country.
Efficiently using JSON to handle server responses.
Debugging and testing the functionality to ensure everything works seamlessly.

Key Takeaways:
✅ Relational database concepts using country_code.
✅ Dynamic population of drop down menus using AJAX.
✅ Writing clean, reusable PHP and JavaScript code.

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