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Subject: Dynamic Javascript /ASP Zip Code Lookup
Category: Computers > Programming
Asked by: gregoryew-ga
List Price: $20.00
Posted: 10 Sep 2002 20:34 PDT
Expires: 11 Sep 2002 16:08 PDT
Question ID: 63739
Using client side Javascript on an Active Server Page (NOT a ASP.Net
page) is it possible to lookup the zip code on the server and
dynamically populate city and state fields on the same web page
without submitting the form, without using a popup form, and without
downloading the massively large zip table into some kind of an array. 
Please provide an article that describes this with source code. 
Alternatively just describe the solution with example source code.
Thanks.
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Subject: Re: Dynamic Javascript /ASP Zip Code Lookup
From: kyrie26-ga on 10 Sep 2002 21:43 PDT
 
Hi gregoryew-ga,

Intuitively speaking, as a Web Developer, that is a very bad idea! If
not impossible! That's the whole reason why databases were invented...

You'd still have to include the zip codes on the client side (ie. in
the Web page) and that means still having to download the massively
large zipcode data. And the best data structure for it other than a
database would have to be an array. It would take a long time to load
the page - better to query a database!


Cheers

kyrie26-ga

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