Question

I’m trying to create a page with an AJAX style form. Where on submit, the values in the form search and query a database and output the search results into the same DIV as the form was.

Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Answer 1

jQuery is probably what you’re looking for…

The docs are straightforward. http://jquery.com/

Generally, jQuery follows the find something then do something approach.

• Find something —> watch for some action on some element (in your
  case, clicking submit)
• Do something —> make an ajax call to the php page you want to run
  the query and return the results then insert the results where you
  want on the page

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.post/

Some other helpful jQuery commands for this task could be…

• http://api.jquery.com/appendTo/
• http://api.jquery.com/remove/
• http://api.jquery.com/append/

Hope this helps.