Database query

Hi folks,

I hope this should be quite easily resolved. I am relatively new to web design- I have some great ideas but not the knowledge to back them up- but I'm learning

I have a database of user details in MS Access, which can be updated by users via a form- which works fine. The problem I'm having is displying the data afterwards. I want to use a drop down box which contains all user names which, when selected, populates the fields of a form on the same page. I was told that I should make it so that when the user selects an option from the select box, it reloads the page with the value of the option in the querystring, then the page will take the querystring value, and use it to extract the neccesary records from the db.

In short- how do I do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

the keyword - "remote scripting"
if you do a search on the web "xml-rpc" or "remote scripting" than you'll find a number of scriptings available. you could do with whatever language you're comfortable with(i.e. asp, php, perl, java, python, etc...)

the following link deals with javascript :-
http://developer.apple.com/internet...ipt/iframe.html

xml-rpc
http://www.xmlrpc.com/