How to pass the selected value from select box to a PHP function?

I have select box for company whose values are populated from DB and I also have another select box for department. Now I have a PHP function to get the values of department if we pass the id of company into it. I have to use this function to populate the department select box every i select the company name.

hence, How to pass the selected value from select box to a PHP function?

t开发者_运维百科hanx , every answer is appreciated.

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Try looking at this: http://remysharp.com/2007/01/20/auto-populating-select-boxes-using-jquery-ajax/

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You should use a js obviously, would have been helpful if you posted the code but write an

onchange="somefn()"

in the select box and write in the js function an ajax call to populate the second selectbox.