Works in Firefox & Opera, but not in IE8

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Published on 2010-06-09T02:51:54Z Indexed on 2010/06/09 3:02 UTC
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1) This issue involves just one html webpage, lets call it "ajax.html".

2) I have AJAX functions in this webpage that work in both Firefox and IE8.

3) I now attempt generating just the option values of a dropdown list of dates using my ajax functions, and it works in Firefox & Opera, but not IE8.

4) The surrounding html code for the dropdown looks like this:

<select name="entry_7_single" id="entry_7" onChange="Ajax_PhpResultsWithVar('./secure/db/SummaryCls.php','entry_8','dateval',this.value)"></select>


The onchange call refers to an ajax function that successfully(both Firefox & IE8) populates a textarea(entry_8) with a description of an event associated with the date selected in this dropdown.

5) An onload call initiates the ajax function to generate the dropdown list values:

<body class="ss-base-body" onLoad="OnLoadWebPage()">


6) The js script that calls the ajax function is as follows:

function OnLoadWebPage()
{
    Ajax_PhpResults('./secure/db/GenDateListCls.php','entry_7');
}


7) Since it works in Firefox, but not IE8, I throw the output of the ajax function into a Firefox large textbox and I get the following:

<option selected value="8 JUN 2010">8 JUN 2010</option>
                  <option value="9 JUN 2010">9 JUN 2010</option>
                  <option value="10 JUN 2010">10 JUN 2010</option>
                  <option value="11 JUN 2010">11 JUN 2010</option>


8 ) There are over a hundred generated but you get the gist of what the ajax function generates. Next I will list the PHP function that outputs the above dropdown values:

/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
<?php
include_once 'SPSQLite.class.php';
include_once 'misc_funcs.php';

class GenDateListCls
{
    var $dbName;
    var $sqlite;
   
    function GenDateListCls()
    {
        $this->dbName = 'accrsc.db';
        $this->ConstructEventDates();
    }
   
    function ConstructEventDates()
    {
         $this->sqlite = new SPSQLite($this->dbName);

         $todayarr = getdate();
         $today = $todayarr[mday] . " " . substr($todayarr[month],0,3) . " " . $todayarr[year];
         
         $ICalDate = ChangeToICalDate($today);
         $dateQuery = "SELECT dtstart from events where substr(dtstart,1,8) >= '" . $ICalDate . "';";
         $this->sqlite->query($dateQuery);
         $datesResult = $this->sqlite->returnRows();
            
         foreach (array_reverse($datesResult) as $indx => $row)
         {         
              $normDate = NormalizeICalDate(substr($row[dtstart],0,8));
              if ($indx==0)
              {
?>
                 <option selected value=<?php echo('"' . $normDate . '"'); ?>><?php echo $normDate; ?></option><?php                 
              }           
              else
              {
?>
                  <option value=<?php echo('"' . $normDate . '"'); ?>><?php echo $normDate; ?></option><?php                     
              }             
         }         
         $this->sqlite->close();
    }
}

$dateList = new GenDateListCls();
   
?>

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I appreciate any assistance on this matter.
Aipragma
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My Background: To let you all know, I am a complete newbie to PHP, Ajax, & javascript, and learning it all on my own, no classes. My background is in Linux, Windows, C++, Java, VB,VBA,MS XML, & some html.

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